Since October 7th Social Media has gone viral with atrocities committed by Israel, including many confirmed by credible sources, and among these claims are wide-spread accusations claiming all Palestinians are terrorists, often even including children. This may be the most extreme and obvious example of this, assuming people fact check them, but it's far from the first time this tactic has been used; this has been routine for decades of not centuries, to demonize the enemies of the rich and powerful. They often accuse their critics of using the same tactic, and, perhaps, in some cases this is partly true, but their critics don't have nearly as much resources to get away with it, so on the rare cases when it happens it's exposed, and critics of the government, Wall Street Oligarchs, and Israel have to do a much better job fact checking and citing sources, which they often do.
But the American government, Israeli government and corporate media have the ability to repeat their own propaganda, whether it's exaggerations, spin or outright lies, over and over again without fact checking it, which is what they do.
They use this tactic to label their enemies as "terrorists" often when they're much more violent than the alleged terrorists; for example, while they accuse Hamas of killing and beheading forty babies on October 7 this has been thoroughly debunked, there were fewer children than that killed at all, some of those were up to 18 years old, and none were beheaded, but many if not all were actually killed by Israel and there's no doubt that since then Israel has killed well over 17,000 children in Gaza, and many Zionists even brag about this.
Malcolm X accurately said
"The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X, Speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem (13 December 1964)
Malcolm X accurately recognized that the media and governments were distorting the truth long before this and that they could be expected to do so continuously long after his death. This is what Israel, the United States and mainstream media have been doing for decades, and, at times, when others controlled the press they used this tactic as well. One of the most brazen examples, which has been thoroughly exposed as propaganda, is when they labeled the African National Congress and all it's members, especially leaders like Nelson Mandela as terrorists. Even when he was released from prison, elected President, and won the Nobel Peace Prize, which was actually deserved in this case, the United States didn't retract this designation until 2008 when it required an act of Congress to make it official. But there are many other examples where this tactic has been falsely applied, although the media virtually never reminds the public of this, even in the case of Nelson Mandela.
Another of the most brazen examples, which has been mostly exposed and forgotten, is when the Nazis labeled French resistance, Jews in Ghettos including Warsaw and Bedzin or any other resistance during World War II as terrorists, and sometimes even those labeled as terrorists accepted the label, although I strongly disagree with that. This is not to be confused with Zionists in Palestine who were also labeled terrorists at the same time by the British or other media, since those resisting the Nazis had a legitimate enemy to fight. This includes Chajka Klinger, author of "I am Writing These Words to You: The Original Diaries, Będzin 1943" which is what she called her diary which was finally published in 2018, decades after her death, although an censored version was published in 1959, in Hebrew, a year after her death. In this book she seems to accept the label as a "terrorist" even though she felt they had a good cause, and their targets weren't civilians, although like all wars civilians often get killed by both sides, but the Nazis killed far more civilians than those they labeled "terrorists" and it's unlikely that Chajka Kinger and most of her allies killed any civilians, and rarely even managed to kill Nazis, which were legitimate targets.
The same is going on now in Gaza, and to a lesser degree in the West Bank, where the Israelis are killing far more civilians than Hamas, including well over 17,000 children, if not over 20-30,000 children, and there also far more genocidal comments coming from Zionists which are reported by credible alternative media outlets, but ignored by mainstream media in the United States, and at times, Israeli media often brags about this making genocidal comments, but it's only alternative media outlets or social media that relay this information, not MSM.
How can anyone in their right mind believe that the victims of genocide are the terrorists, while the perpretrators are acting in self defense?
Few if any people checking alternative media and familiar with the true history of the Israeli conflict with the Palestinians would believe this; however a large segment of the public, especially Zionists, still relies on heavily censored and often false version of both history and current events, and they might believe it just like some people in Germany or countries they controlled might have believed Nazi propaganda. However, shortly after World War II ended the propaganda the Nazis spread about those resisting them being terrorists quickly fell apart and was debunked. There's no doubt that if the Zionists or the United States lose the same thing will happen again, unfortunately this doesn't seem likely in the immediate future.
However, despite the fact that Zionists or their allies mostly control traditional media there are currently alternative media outlets and historical reports, including many good books ignored by MSM which are available to the public and this is almost certainly why there's so much protest against the genocide. I compiled my own Bibliography of Books on Israel History & Credible Alternative News Outlets which do a much better job reporting the truth and wrote a couple dozen Blog articles on the subject, mostly since October 7 2023 including a few of my latest explaining the history MSM ignores, The Planning For The Nakba Is A Matter of Public Record!; The Current Gaza War Is a Repeat Of Previous Atrocities and Buried Human Rights Reports Few Ever Heard Of! No rational person familiar with more accurate history can possibly deny the genocide or accept claims that Palestinian children are terrorists, and many people may not even accept the claim that Hamas is a terrorist organization, which many people already refuse to accept, especially third world countries that are also opressed by Neo-Colonialist countries, and the UN has been unable to reach the required two thirds in the General Assembly to label them as terrorists.
To find out which version of the story is true often takes time to check different sources, including those with opposing opinions, which, in my case, includes Zionists who were my leading source for the article about the Planning for the Nakba being a matter of public record. It also happens to understand propaganda tactics, which, on average, educated people, usually more wealthy than the working class are more likely to understand, whether they use it to manipulate the masses or try to teach the masses not to be manipulated. This was clear with propaganda pamphlets, the Hasbara Handbook and The Israel Project's 2009 GLOBAL LANGUAGE DICTIONARY by Frank Luntz, put out for Zionists that wanted to support the Zionist cause and were more concerned with convincing people to take their side than to find the truth; this was followed up by the Veritas Handbook which encouraged fact checking to get the truth before deciding what to believe. I went into Zionist propaganda more in Is the Hasbara Handbook The True Protocols of Zion? and Can Zionists Defend Their Agenda Without Suppressing Academic Freedom?; since then I read The Veritas Handbook 11/27/2014 and that it's far more concerned with getting to the truth than presenting a biased view with propaganda. Unlike Zionist propaganda, including the Hasbara Handbook and Frank Luntz's pamphlet, the Veritas Handbook encourages people to fact check, which often takes time, and read both points of view.
One of the most fundamental principles of propaganda, if not the most important one, is "A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth" or at least it seems to especially if people with opposing views never get their chance to expose the lie or check facts. This is why we need diverse media, and ideally opportunities for all people to get a good education and sort through opposing views, not just the rich. Unfortunately that's not how our political, media, educational and social system is set up. Mainstream media is completely controlled by the rich, and alternative media that is partly controlled by the middle class has always been much lower profile, historically sometimes given an advantage by postal subsidies, as Robert McChesney explains in his two books about the basics of the history of the Media, "Rich Media, Poor Democracy" 1999 and "The Problem With the Media" 2004, but the rich still controlled higher profile media, as shown by Upton Sinclair in "The Brass Check" 1920; more recently alternative media has taken advantage of the internet with mainstream media, owned by the rich, controlling almost all other media, including the five or six corporations controlling over 90% of national news, and the next dozen or much more newspapers or other media outlets, many of which are owned by billionaires.
This creates a major media bias in favor of the rich, which is far more important than alleged control of the media by Jews.
The bigger problem isn't a conflict between Jews and other religions, it's between the rich and the poor, but Jews are over represented among the rich trying to control the media, and they're also over represented among those trying to conduct honest research to solve this class conflict, as well as expose atrocities caused by Zionists, including genocide in Gaza which isn't supported by all Jews. One of the most common stereotype applied to Jews is that they're "money-lenders" often at excessive interests, or other jobs designed to control the middle class and poor for the benefit of the rich, but this doesn't apply to all Jews, and it does apply to many non-Jews.
Furthermore, for one reason or another there are many more well educated Jews in proportion to their population than most other religions, but whether they use that education for better or worse varies, and there are often major rifts within the Jewish community, especially about Zionism. Many of the most manipulative Zionists are Jews, but many of the best researchers or activists opposing Zionism are also Jews, including many writers on the subject, like Ilan Pappe, Avi Shlaim, and anti-Zionist reporters like Aaron Mate, Katie Halper and Medea Benjamin. There are also many other Jewish researchers doing good work to serve the best interest of the majority of the public including Naomi Klein, who is also an anti-Zionist reporting on indoctrination of children oppressive working conditions for minorities in sweatshops, wars based on lies, Jonathan Kozol who does some of the best research on inequality in education defending fair rights for minorities including African Americans and Hispanics, although he hasn't taken a clear position on Israel that I know of, Murray Straus and Urie Bronfenbrenner two of the best researchers on preventing violence in the long run by reducing child abuse and providing better education, and who knows how many great researchers or activists who are Jewish, yet are either opposed to Israel's opression of Palestinians or have expressed clear opinions on it, some of who passed away before the most recent war so they obviously couldn't discuss it. Contrary to obviously false claims from Zionists including Bari Weiss and Jonathan Greenblatt that Israel and Zionists speak for and defend all Jews this is clearly not the case, and at times some of them, including Greenblatt have even accused anti-Zionist Jews of being Anti-Semites, which is absurd since by their own definition these Jews are Semites, and the real definition of Semites include Palestinians, so it would be justifiable to call Anti-Palestinian Zionists who oppress both Palestinians and Jews defending Palestinians the real antisemites.
There's also good reason to be careful not to blame all Zionists unless they personally indicate support for Zionist atrocities, which a surprising number of Israeli or Christian Zionists do; the best reason for this is a large number of former Zionists who explained how they learned to oppose Zionism, including Miko Peled, Rich Forer, Jen Perelman, Ilan Pappe, Antony Loewenstein and many others, who have explained how how they were raised in Zionist Jewish families and how they believed the common ideology for a long time with good intentions before somehow learning that it was based on lies. we clearly need to encourage more of them to convert so it's important not to alienate Zionists who aren't fanatical supporters of genocide or anti-Palestinian bigots. And there may be a few Zionists who support "Moderate" or "Liberal Zionism," which I certainly don't agree with, like Jacobo Timerman and David Sirota who both claimed to be Zionists or, in David Sirota's case, if he didn't make that claim he defended the concept of "Liberal Zionism" but tehy were both highly critical of many of Israel's worst atrocities, including actions after October 7 for Sirota and the Lebanon War for Timerman, which happened before he passed away. They were both trying to patch together a moral version of "Zionism" that doesn't infringe on the rights of others, but that's not the way Zionism has ever worked, especially after the 1948 Nakba, but some early Zionists may have supported a more moderate version respecting the rights of Arabs, which was no longer possible after the Nakba or non-stop opression since then. Peter Beinart also previously supported "Liberal Zionism" and discussed it with David Sirota, but he since moved away from that view and now seems to be mostly if not entirely anti-Zionist; if there's a chance that David Sirota, who has many other good progressive views on other positions, also moves away from "Liberal Zionism and increases opposition to the worst Israeli atrocities we should welcome it.
However, that doesn't change the fact that there's an enormous amount of Zionist atrocities being committed, and anti-Palestinian bigotry is far more common than most people suspected before the October 7th attack, especially in Israel. Also it's becoming increasingly obvious that not only are a large percentage of accusations of "antisemitism" targeting legitimate criticism of Israel and the atrocities they're committing, and, hard as this is to say, that some of the antisemitic tropes that we were taught to dismiss without thought may actually be exaggerations of things that might have been partly true, but when considering this we much be careful not to adopt the exaggerations. One example, as I already pointed out, is the stereotype about "Money-lenders" or other trades to control the working class, is actually a characteristic of some wealthy people including both Jews and non-Jews, which many people, both Jews and non-Jews, have opposed.
Another stereotype is that "Jews control the media" which was spread over a hundred years ago in "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" which is widely considered to be a forgery that includes plagiarism, which is mostly true, and I'm certainly not defending the Protocols. But if you actually read the Protocols is describes many propaganda tactics, including control of the media and other manipulation tactics, which if you think about it, are tactics that those promoting the Protocols were actually using themselves, while blaming Jews for it. These tactics can and have been used by many people, including the antisemites and others, and even if Jews weren't using these tactics at the time, some of them are now. By using the media to promote the Protocols at the time the antisemites demonstrated they did have some control of the media which means Jews couldn't have total control; however Jews did have some control of some media outlets like the Neue Freie Presse which Theodor Herzl worked for and even Herzl admitted that Jews have more control of some media than their percentage of the population and that continues to be the case today, and there's public evidence showing that supporters of Zionism have much more control of mainstream media which is now consolidated into a small number of corporations.
If anything Zionists have much more control of the media now than they did in Herzl's time as I went into in Why Is Mainstream Media Almost Completely Controlled by Zionists? Congress and Hollywood also include more Jewish people than their share of the population, which was confirmed by Grok after I asked What percentage of Congressmen, including the Senate are Jewish? What percentage of USA Governors are Jewish? What percentage of Hollywood celebrities are Jewish? 02/26/2026; I also asked about the percentage in the media and found it was also more than their share of the population and this is far more obvious when I checked the CEOs of the five biggest corporations controling national media four out of five of them, Brian L. Roberts, Bob Iger, David Zaslav and David Ellison were Jewish and the fifth one, Lachlan Murdoch, is from the Murdoch family which has clearly supported Zionism all along. Three of the four Jewish CEOs have been careful not to clearly claim to be Zionists but they have been strong supporters of Israel, the fourth, David Ellison is also a strong supporter of Israel and both he and his father Larry Ellison, who enabled him to take control of Paramount Skydance or Paramount Global, are widely considered Zionists, so there's little doubt that mainstream media has overwhelming support for Zionism, and checking their actions adds further evidence to support this claim, especially for people familiar with credible alternative media that provides far more credible research than the mainstream media. This is even more obvious when you see some of the absurd claims made by Larry Ellison who claims that the IDF goes to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties at the end of this video and he acts as if Israel wasn't created through massive theft of land, terrorism and opression of Palestinians going on for decades. And, of course there are numerous stories about Bari Weiss, who was hired by his son, censoring critics of Israel and providing incredibly obvious pro-Israel propaganda while Israel is committing genocide.
It's also clear that the best experts on propaganda are over-represented by Jews. I asked Google AI who they were (The complete answer is posted below) and four out of the six historical and foundational experts were Jewish; but at least a couple of these, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman were more concerned with educating the public so they're not deceived by War Propaganda, but one of them, Edward Bernays, sees no problem with using propaganda to manipulate the public for the best interest of the rich, even when it's to promote war propaganda or hook women on cigarettes. The fourth one was Walter Lippman, who at times has used propaganda to promote progressive or anti-war causes, but at other times he's used it to provide pro-war causes, or either educate the public about propaganda or use it against them. He helped provide propaganda starting in the first World War to promote the war, but towards the end of his life came out against the Vietnam War. This Google reply also cited eight more modern experts on propaganda only two of who I found to be Jewish, which is still more than their percentage of the population, but I couldn't find religious background for any of the other six, so these two are a minimum. This reply didn't include Frank Luntz, who is Jewish and defends propaganda to manipulate people, Upton Sinclair, who isn't Jewish and tried to warn people about propaganda and how the wealthy control the media over a hundred years ago, or Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels who both demonstrated a strong understanding of propaganda and were both infamous antisemites, and mass murderers committing genocide with the help of their propaganda. In the 1960s Edward Bernays was asked how he felt when he found out Nazis used his book "Crystallizing Public Opinion" to create propaganda against Jews he expressed shock that it was used for this purpose, which he never intended; however, by this time he helped create propaganda to justify the coup in Guatemala and death squads that followed it, so it's hard to argue he was much if any better than the Nazis.
As I said before I created a Bibliography of Books on Israel History & Credible Alternative News Outlets and read quite a bit of it to find out the real history of Zionism, and found that the most important part of this history as well as current events are almost completely absent from Mainstream media and many of the most important reporting is heavily censored while important decisions are based on lies. Why isn't this in mainstream media or being discussed by politicians? The only credible explanation is that they're heavily biased in favor of Israel, although I'm sure they would say the same about me, but I have no doubt that fact checking these books, including many by Zionists themselves, will confirm the strong bias in favor of Zionism and the ideology of the wealthy.
And there's been an enormous number of people fired from mainstream media for supporting Palestine, including some before the October 7th attack, like Marc Lamont Hill, but many more after that. I included a question to Google AI for this below which confirmed this, but it didn't include many of the highest profile examples so I'm sure there's far more than either I or Google AI have listed. Examples that Google AI didn't mention include Briahna Joy Gray, Katie Halper, Mehdi Hasan and I'm sure there are others I mentioned before, but there's virtually guaranteed to be many more that I'm not aware of, even after searching for it.
Furthermore propaganda and control of the media is being used to downplay or deny many other genocides when the rich and powerful are partly if not completely responsible for them, or in some cases, simply decline to do anything to stop them even when it can be easily done. some of these examples go back decades, if not centuries, including genocides against many Native Americans, victims of European Colonialism, or United States Neo-Colonialism and coups or Wars, including Vietnam. If you check the Wikipedia List of genocides you'll find that many of them hardly ever got any media attention, and this includes ones after the Holocaust which drew attention to Genocide and many people declared "Never Again" and that the whole world should be obligated to act to prevent additional genocides, which virtually never happens and when they do something it often does more harm than good. the earliest genocides include at least one Crusade centuries ago, several Genocides against Native Americans, one against Australian Aborigines, at least one against Africans by Colonialists, but not the Congo genocide by King Leopold II, the Armenian Genocide, and several genocides related to World War II, including the Holocaust, of course. This was followed up by demands that we must intervene to prevent it from happening again, yet that hasn't happened.
This list also includes the Maya genocide in Guatemala which was supported by allies of the US government and never would have happened if not for the 1954 coup supported by the CIA, but this has hardly gotten any media attention and there are many more possible genocides against Native Americans, mostly if not entirely south of the border that aren't mentioned, possibly as a result of US intervention and allies propped up by the US. It also includes the East Timor genocide by allies of the United States, which hardly gets any media attention and it doesn't include a probably genocide in Vietnam, which the "Russel Tribunal" 1968 made what I consider an overwhelming case for, but since it's the rich and powerful responsible for it this gets no media attention or it's portrayed as a conspiracy theory or fringe belief. This was followed up with a more recent The Russell Tribunal on Palestine which was obviously inspired by the original "Russel Tribunal" and carried out long after Bertrand Russel's death; showing that even though the traditional media virtually never mentions the "Russel Tribunal" and most people never heard of it, anti-War activists are aware of it and trying to keep educating people about war crimes and Genocides.
The list of genocides also includes Pol Pot's Killing Fields, which as I already said was indirectly and unintentionally caused by the Vietnam War as a result of our governments invasion, then after the fact our government supported the Khmer Rouge just to spite the Vietnamese even though they knew the Khmer Rouge were responsible for genocide. The list includes Sabra and Shatila massacre in the early 1980s, which gets virtually no media coverage anymore by a media biased heavily in favor of Israel and the United States. It includes the Bosnian genocide, which our government did intervene with, but many people argue they did more harm than good, especially in Kosovo, which came later and isn't listed separately. It includes the Rwandan genocide, which was carried out with primitive weapons and virtually all experts agree that it could have been prevented with a few thousand troops, yet Clinton did nothing. It also includes the Ukrainian genocide and points out that it began in 2014, eight years before Russia was involved, but it doesn't adequately explain that it began because of our governments intervention causing a coup and that for the first eight years Ukraine, which our government defends was responsible for opression in the East against Ukrainians of Russian decent, which is why Russia invaded in the first place. I'm certainly not saying I support the Russian invasion, but it never would have happened without the intervention in 2013 and 2014, by then Vice President Biden and Victoria Nuland under the Obama administration. There are also many other genocides on the list and more that should be on the list, and it's virtually guaranteed that our government's Neo-Colonialist Policies contribute to many of them one way or another, although I haven't been able to research most of them. And, of course it also includes the Gaza Genocide, which is among the best documented Genocides in history, at least by researchers and Alternative Media or Social Media, despite the fact that mainstream media isn't covering it accurately and it often tries to cover it up or spin it to make the victims look like perpretrators and perpretrators look like victims, which traditional media has been doing for decades, as Malcolm X said.
This tactic, of course doesn't just apply to genocides, it also applies to many other conflicts that might not reach this stage, or perhaps some that do, but the media and governments refuse to admit it. While the United States was labeling Nelson Mandela as a terrorist even though he was fighting for freedom for his people they were trying to portray the Nicaraguan Contras as "Freedom Fighters" even though they were mostly former members of Somoza's La Guardia who previously terrorized the working class before being overthrown then continued to terrorize them with support from the CIA after Somoza's regime was overthrown. The Irish were labeled terrorists when they were the one being occupied and opressed by the British and the British killed many more people, including civilians than the Irish. It's pretty clear that those with political power and control the press declare their opposition to be terrorists and them selves the defender of freedom regardless of the facts over and over again.
The same often goes when it comes to admitting to past atrocities and discussion of reparations, which is routinely based on lies as well. One of the most common request for reparations is for former slaves; but ironically instead of paying reparations to former slaves or the decedents of former slaves who still have the economy rigged against them, there have been numerous times where reparations were paid to former slave owners for "Loss of property" ignoring the fact that they never should have had the right to enslave people at all, and the slaves were the real victims of the slave owners. There were also discussions of possible reparations for Native Americans for theft of their land and hundreds of years of repression and broken treaties made during the theft of land; and like the broken treaties when they finally admitted a minimal amount of responsibility that agreed to a minuscule amount of reparations, and even cheated on that. Instead of giving the reparations they put it in a "trust accounts" that were supposed to be used to benefit the remaining Native Americans, but instead these accounts were controlled by corrupt people using it for their own benefits.
The same goes for reparations for many other atrocities which our government and European Colonialist rarely admit to or make incredibly weak excuses for. There were never reparations for attacking Vietnam, instead our government insisted that the victims in Vietnam assume the debts of the puppet government of South Vietnam that never had any legitimacy. There's been no reparations for the Iran, Guatemala, Congo, and Chile coups or death squads that followed most if not all of these or dozens of other coups or wars, many that were documented by William Blums book "Killing Hope." The British never paid reparations to Ireland, India or many other Colonies for decades and often centuries of opression, now did other European Colonists, instead they began supporting Neo-Colonialism when they could no longer maintain traditional Colonialism, and continue exploiting the poor in third world countries with more sophisticated lies to justify it.
And now as I finish this article the Trump administration and Israel are attacking Iran based on incredibly obvious lies which any reasonable person can see through, yet their allies are lining up to defend them and the lies. Iran hasn't been threatening us or it's neighbors in decades if not centuries, instead our country and at times, Israel Britain and several other European countries have been constantly attacking them. This goes back at least to the Iranian coup that overthrew a democratically elected government in 1953 that led to the rule of the Shah who terrorized his own people with SAVAK for two and a half decades before being overthrown by an Islamic government. This extreme Islamic government never would have risen to power if not for that, they could have had a secular government controlled by moderates, if not for the 1953 coup.
In the eighties our government armed both sides of the Iran/Iraq hoping for maximum casualties and to weaken both of them. Iran has made numerous attempts to improve relations including offers to share espionage information after the 9/11 attacks, which the Bush administration accepted them called them part of the "Axis of Evil" anyway! Iran signed an agreement during the Obama administration to allow inspections to ensure they don't develop nuclear weapons and promised not to on numerous occasions even when the Trump administration abandoned the deal in his first term. Iran was cooperating in negotiations right to the end but Trump refused to accept this and launched this war based on obvious lies!
I asked numerous questions from Google AI below that support many of my claims, but it's important to check diverse sources, not just those provided by AI programs since AI is often biased in favor of the establishment, yet it still confirms many of our governments lies and is more credible than mainstream media.
How many Israeli government officials or media spokespeople accused all Palestinians, including children, of being terrorists? 02/19/2026
Based on reports and documented statements, several Israeli government officials and public figures have used rhetoric that equates Palestinians, including children and civilians, with terrorists, particularly following the October 7, 2023, attack. While a specific, total number is hard to pin down due to the ongoing nature of such rhetoric, key instances include:
Nissim Vaturi: Deputy Speaker of the Knesset and a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, who in 2025 reportedly called for the killing of adult Palestinians in Gaza, stating, "There are no uninvolved people" and that all in Gaza are "scoundrels".
Amit Halevi: A Knesset member who in 2024, during a Kan 11 interview, referred to Palestinian babies as "terrorists," persisting despite corrections from the host.
Meirav Ben-Ari: A lawmaker who, in October 2023, stated, "The children of Gaza have brought this upon themselves".
Other Instances: Reports indicate that Israeli media and officials have sometimes described victims, including children, as "terrorists" or "targets" to justify casualties. A 2012 report noted that an Israeli military prosecutor argued that every Palestinian child is a "potential terrorist," a view reflected in actions taken against Palestinian civilians, according to the report.
Designation of Groups: The Israeli Ministry of Defence designated six prominent Palestinian human rights organizations as "terrorist organizations" in 2021, a move criticized by the UN and human rights groups.
These and other statements have been cited by critics as dehumanizing and contributing to a,,climate where Palestinian civilians are viewed collectively as security threats. Complete article
'Terrorists eliminated’: How the Israeli media denies killings of Palestinian children 03/2/2025 Israeli media label victims as terrorists and omit the toll of the military's bombardment on civilians. On one of the deadliest days in Gaza since the Israeli war began in 2023, air strikes killed more than 400 Palestinians on Tuesday, including more than 180 children and 90 women, in a matter of hours. The attacks, which violated the ceasefire agreement, were carried out during the holy month of Ramadan. But they were covered differently in Israeli media compared with the rest of the world. .... Aside from the military perspective reported in Israeli media, the attack and its bloody results were covered without reference to the number of children killed. In some cases, all those killed were labelled as terrorists. ..... "The Israeli media has invented alternative jargon to describe Palestinian resistance actions," Noy said. "For the Israeli media, there is no difference between attacking soldiers and attacking civilians."
Tlaib Enters ‘14 Pages of Babies’ Killed by Israel in Gaza Into Congressional Record 09/20/2024 “That’s 710 babies that the Israeli government has murdered,” the lone Palestinian American in Congress said. “This is not self-defense. This is genocide.”
Israel/Palestine: Designation of Palestinian Rights Groups as Terrorists 10/22/2021 (New York) – The Israeli Defense Ministry on October 19, 2021, issued a military order declaring six Palestinian civil society organizations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to be “terrorist organizations.” The groups are Addameer, al-Haq, Defense for Children Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Bisan Center for Research and Development, and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees. The designation, made pursuant to a 2016 Israeli statute, effectively outlaws the activities of these civil society groups. It authorizes Israeli authorities to close their offices, seize their assets and arrest and jail their staff members, and it prohibits funding or even publicly expressing support for their activities.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, who work closely with many of the groups, said in a joint statement:
“This appalling and unjust decision is an attack by the Israeli government on the international human rights movement. For decades, Israeli authorities have systematically sought to muzzle human rights monitoring and punish those who criticize its repressive rule over Palestinians. While staff members of our organizations have faced deportation and travel bans, Palestinian human rights defenders have always borne the brunt of the repression. This decision is an alarming escalation that threatens to shut down the work of Palestine’s most prominent civil society organizations. The decades-long failure of the international community to challenge grave Israeli human rights abuses and impose meaningful consequences for them has emboldened Israeli authorities to act in this brazen manner.
Senior Israeli official says all Palestinian adults in Gaza 'should be eliminated' 02/24/2025 Deputy parliament speaker Nissim Vaturi also called for the destruction of Jenin, warning that it will soon be turned into Gaza. ...... Genocidal campaign. The violent rhetoric issued by top Israeli leaders like Vaturi has been used as evidence of Israel's genocidal intent in its war on Gaza, which has killed more than 48,000 Palestinians and utterly devastated the enclave.
Israel treats every Palestinian child as “potential terrorist”: government-backed UK study 06/28/2012 A new report funded and supported by the UK government that accuses Israel of violating international law with its treatment of Palestinian child detainees was launched in London by a high-profile group of human rights lawyers on Tuesday. The report says Israel is in violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) on at least six counts and of the Fourth Geneva Convention on at least two counts. It lays bare the system of legal apartheid Israel maintains in Palestine.
Outraged over Israel’s Designation of Six Civil Society Groups as Terrorists, Speakers Tell Palestinian Rights Committee Harassment against Human Rights Defenders Must End 12/07/2021
Middle East Eye: Israeli Knesset member Amit Halevi called Palestinians babies “terrorists” despite being repeatedly corrected by the Kan 11 host that they are children, not terrorists. July 2024 "300 terrorists were born." "300 children, not terrorists."
“Gazawood”: The deadly accusations against Gaza’s journalists 09/15/2025 Journalists in Gaza have been relentlessly defamed and threatened since the start of the Israeli offensive in the Palestinian territory in October 2023, from the circulation of doctored images to the creation of an online platform designed to discredit them. Israeli officials play an active role in these smear campaigns, which undermine the legitimacy of Gaza’s journalists and expose them to danger as these accusations are used to justify targeted attacks on reporters.
UNRWA: Facts Versus Claims September 2025 Over the past 23 months, the Government of Israel has continuously made unsubstantiated claims against UNRWA and its neutrality. These claims have put the lives of UNRWA staff at serious risk and harmed the reputation of the Agency.
Israel: IDF accuses six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza of being terrorists 10/24/2024 The PJS has called on the international community, human rights organisations and United Nations institutions to open an investigation into Israel's allegations and to intervene immediately to protect Palestinian journalists. “This additional threat on our colleagues working for Al Jazeera clearly illustrates the determination of Israel to shut down the media in Gaza. We cannot remain silent where freedom of the press is clearly at stake, and where journalists are targeted for doing their job. We see these new IDF allegations as a pretext to kill more journalists and intimidate the others. Israel must end its countless attacks on the press and be held accountable for silencing the media”.
IFJ General Secretary Anthony Bellanger said: “These allegations put the lives of our six colleagues in serious danger and make media professionals a target of attacks. We strongly condemn unproven allegations by the IDF, which are even more disturbing given the terrible number of journalists in Gaza that have already been killed, and the widespread belief among media workers that they are being targeted. We reiterate that international technology platforms that publish these allegations and hateful messages must take appropriate measures to remove it”.
To date, at least 140 journalists have been killed in Palestine, Israel, Lebanon and Syria as a result of the war in Gaza. Since the start of the conflict, the IFJ has warned repeatedly against the direct targeting of journalists in Gaza by Israel and regularly condemned the ban on foreign media to enter the enclave and report on the ground.
Based on reports and documented statements, several Israeli government officials and public figures have used rhetoric that equates Palestinians, including children and civilians, with terrorists, particularly following the October 7, 2023, attack. While a specific, total number is hard to pin down due to the ongoing nature of such rhetoric, key instances include:
Nissim Vaturi: Deputy Speaker of the Knesset and a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, who in 2025 reportedly called for the killing of adult Palestinians in Gaza, stating, "There are no uninvolved people" and that all in Gaza are "scoundrels".
Amit Halevi: A Knesset member who in 2024, during a Kan 11 interview, referred to Palestinian babies as "terrorists," persisting despite corrections from the host.
Meirav Ben-Ari: A lawmaker who, in October 2023, stated, "The children of Gaza have brought this upon themselves".
Other Instances: Reports indicate that Israeli media and officials have sometimes described victims, including children, as "terrorists" or "targets" to justify casualties. A 2012 report noted that an Israeli military prosecutor argued that every Palestinian child is a "potential terrorist," a view reflected in actions taken against Palestinian civilians, according to the report.
Designation of Groups: The Israeli Ministry of Defence designated six prominent Palestinian human rights organizations as "terrorist organizations" in 2021, a move criticized by the UN and human rights groups.
These and other statements have been cited by critics as dehumanizing and contributing to a,,climate where Palestinian civilians are viewed collectively as security threats. Complete article
'Terrorists eliminated’: How the Israeli media denies killings of Palestinian children 03/2/2025 Israeli media label victims as terrorists and omit the toll of the military's bombardment on civilians. On one of the deadliest days in Gaza since the Israeli war began in 2023, air strikes killed more than 400 Palestinians on Tuesday, including more than 180 children and 90 women, in a matter of hours. The attacks, which violated the ceasefire agreement, were carried out during the holy month of Ramadan. But they were covered differently in Israeli media compared with the rest of the world. .... Aside from the military perspective reported in Israeli media, the attack and its bloody results were covered without reference to the number of children killed. In some cases, all those killed were labelled as terrorists. ..... "The Israeli media has invented alternative jargon to describe Palestinian resistance actions," Noy said. "For the Israeli media, there is no difference between attacking soldiers and attacking civilians."
Tlaib Enters ‘14 Pages of Babies’ Killed by Israel in Gaza Into Congressional Record 09/20/2024 “That’s 710 babies that the Israeli government has murdered,” the lone Palestinian American in Congress said. “This is not self-defense. This is genocide.”
Israel/Palestine: Designation of Palestinian Rights Groups as Terrorists 10/22/2021 (New York) – The Israeli Defense Ministry on October 19, 2021, issued a military order declaring six Palestinian civil society organizations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to be “terrorist organizations.” The groups are Addameer, al-Haq, Defense for Children Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Bisan Center for Research and Development, and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees. The designation, made pursuant to a 2016 Israeli statute, effectively outlaws the activities of these civil society groups. It authorizes Israeli authorities to close their offices, seize their assets and arrest and jail their staff members, and it prohibits funding or even publicly expressing support for their activities.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, who work closely with many of the groups, said in a joint statement:
“This appalling and unjust decision is an attack by the Israeli government on the international human rights movement. For decades, Israeli authorities have systematically sought to muzzle human rights monitoring and punish those who criticize its repressive rule over Palestinians. While staff members of our organizations have faced deportation and travel bans, Palestinian human rights defenders have always borne the brunt of the repression. This decision is an alarming escalation that threatens to shut down the work of Palestine’s most prominent civil society organizations. The decades-long failure of the international community to challenge grave Israeli human rights abuses and impose meaningful consequences for them has emboldened Israeli authorities to act in this brazen manner.
Senior Israeli official says all Palestinian adults in Gaza 'should be eliminated' 02/24/2025 Deputy parliament speaker Nissim Vaturi also called for the destruction of Jenin, warning that it will soon be turned into Gaza. ...... Genocidal campaign. The violent rhetoric issued by top Israeli leaders like Vaturi has been used as evidence of Israel's genocidal intent in its war on Gaza, which has killed more than 48,000 Palestinians and utterly devastated the enclave.
Israel treats every Palestinian child as “potential terrorist”: government-backed UK study 06/28/2012 A new report funded and supported by the UK government that accuses Israel of violating international law with its treatment of Palestinian child detainees was launched in London by a high-profile group of human rights lawyers on Tuesday. The report says Israel is in violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) on at least six counts and of the Fourth Geneva Convention on at least two counts. It lays bare the system of legal apartheid Israel maintains in Palestine.
Outraged over Israel’s Designation of Six Civil Society Groups as Terrorists, Speakers Tell Palestinian Rights Committee Harassment against Human Rights Defenders Must End 12/07/2021
Middle East Eye: Israeli Knesset member Amit Halevi called Palestinians babies “terrorists” despite being repeatedly corrected by the Kan 11 host that they are children, not terrorists. July 2024 "300 terrorists were born." "300 children, not terrorists."
“Gazawood”: The deadly accusations against Gaza’s journalists 09/15/2025 Journalists in Gaza have been relentlessly defamed and threatened since the start of the Israeli offensive in the Palestinian territory in October 2023, from the circulation of doctored images to the creation of an online platform designed to discredit them. Israeli officials play an active role in these smear campaigns, which undermine the legitimacy of Gaza’s journalists and expose them to danger as these accusations are used to justify targeted attacks on reporters.
UNRWA: Facts Versus Claims September 2025 Over the past 23 months, the Government of Israel has continuously made unsubstantiated claims against UNRWA and its neutrality. These claims have put the lives of UNRWA staff at serious risk and harmed the reputation of the Agency.
Israel: IDF accuses six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza of being terrorists 10/24/2024 The PJS has called on the international community, human rights organisations and United Nations institutions to open an investigation into Israel's allegations and to intervene immediately to protect Palestinian journalists. “This additional threat on our colleagues working for Al Jazeera clearly illustrates the determination of Israel to shut down the media in Gaza. We cannot remain silent where freedom of the press is clearly at stake, and where journalists are targeted for doing their job. We see these new IDF allegations as a pretext to kill more journalists and intimidate the others. Israel must end its countless attacks on the press and be held accountable for silencing the media”.
IFJ General Secretary Anthony Bellanger said: “These allegations put the lives of our six colleagues in serious danger and make media professionals a target of attacks. We strongly condemn unproven allegations by the IDF, which are even more disturbing given the terrible number of journalists in Gaza that have already been killed, and the widespread belief among media workers that they are being targeted. We reiterate that international technology platforms that publish these allegations and hateful messages must take appropriate measures to remove it”.
To date, at least 140 journalists have been killed in Palestine, Israel, Lebanon and Syria as a result of the war in Gaza. Since the start of the conflict, the IFJ has warned repeatedly against the direct targeting of journalists in Gaza by Israel and regularly condemned the ban on foreign media to enter the enclave and report on the ground.
When did the United States government label Nelson Mandela a "terrorist?" When did they retract that label? 01/17/2026
The United States government officially listed Nelson Mandela and other ANC members as terrorists in the 1980s due to their militant struggle against the apartheid regime. Mandela remained on U.S. terrorism watch lists until July 2008, when legislation was passed to remove him, long after he became president and won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Key details regarding this designation include:
Initial Labeling: The African National Congress (ANC) was added to U.S. terror lists during the 1980s, which caused members to face1 difficulties entering the country.
The Reason: The designation was tied to the armed struggle led by the ANC against the South African apartheid government.
Removal: In July 2008, U.S. legislation (H.R. 5690) was signed into law, allowing the State Department to waive travel restrictions and officially remove1 Mandela and other ANC members from the list.
Context: Despite his international status, Mandela was considered a "terrorist" by the U.S. government until well into the 21st century. Complete article
Kerry, Corker, Whitehouse Announce Nelson Mandela Will Be Removed From Terror Watch Lists 07/15/2008 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sens. John Kerry, Bob Corker, and Sheldon Whitehouse today announced that former South African President Nelson Mandela will be removed from U.S. terrorism watch lists. President Bush today signed H.R. 5690, a law authorizing the U.S. Department of State to waive U.S. travel restrictions on President Mandela and other members of the African National Congress (ANC.)
My terrorists, your terrorists. 2014 It‘s been said so many times before that it now sounds banal. But it’s true: Yesterday’s terrorists can be tomorrow’s heads of state or allies. The clearest example: the case of Nelson Mandela, whose name wasn’t removed from US terrorist lists until just a few days before his 90th birthday in 2013, shortly before his death. The USA had added Mandela and his organization, the African National Congress (ANC), to the lists during the 1980’s. In the intervening period apartheid was abolished, Mandela was democratically elected president of South Africa and went on to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. .... Once again the situation in the Middle East is a complete shambles. The old enemy Iran – under attack from the People's Mujahedin, which was listed as a terrorist group and yet occasionally gladly utilized by the West – is supporting the Iraqi government. The Iraqi government, which murders but isn’t listed, is under attack from the recently listed and even more brutally murderous Islamic State (IS). Their progress could, in turn, be halted only the Kurds, some of whom, namely those in the PKK, are listed as terrorists. Which is why it has proven tricky, legally, to provide them with weapons. Got that? Me neither.
Nelson Mandela death: Examining the backlash 12/06/2013 What they’re saying: “It’s amazing we forget he was a terrorist.” “Please explain how it is racist to point out that biographical articles about Mandela are leaving out his terrorist actions pre-1991.” What’s the basis: The United States government placed Mandela on a terror watch list, where he stayed until 2008 – long after his term as President of South Africa, and even longer after his receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. He was placed on it because of his group’s militant fight against apartheid. At the time that Umkhonto we Sizwe carried out its first attacks, Mandela was at its helm. The next year, in 1962, he left for Morocco and Ethiopia, where he secretly studied guerrilla warfare. When Mandela returned home later that year, he was arrested and charged with illegal exit of the country and incitement to strike.
Nelson Mandela and Privacy 02/1/2026 During the Cold War, the South African apartheid regime was an ally of the United States in the fight against Communism. The African National Congress was one of the main opponents of the apartheid regime and this is the party that Nelson Mandela remained a part of, even while imprisoned. In the 1970s, the apartheid regime had designated the ANC as a terrorist organization and the United States, under President Ronald Reagan, soon applied the same designation in the 1980s. Due to Cold War dynamics, President Reagan supported the apartheid regime, saying that it was "essential to the free world in its production of minerals." Being designated a terrorist organization means that members of that organization have a more difficult time entering the U.S. One article explained that "When ANC members apply for visas to the USA, they are flagged for questioning and need a waiver to be allowed in the country. In 2002, former ANC chairman Tokyo Sexwale was denied a visa. In 2007, Barbara Masekela, South Africa's ambassador to the United States from 2002 to 2006, was denied a visa to visit her ailing cousin and didn't get a waiver until after the cousin had died..." Despite the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990 and his subsequent election in 1994, the ANC remained on the U.S. terror watch list until 2008. Then Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice noted at the time that ""This is a country with which we now have excellent relations, South Africa, but it's frankly a rather embarrassing matter that I still have to waive in my own counterpart, the foreign minister of South Africa, not to mention the great leader Nelson Mandela." It took the U.S Administration until July 1, 2008 to remove the ANC from the U.S. terror watch list and only after legislation was passed.
Mandela taken off US terror list 07/01/2008 A US senator said the new legislation was a step towards removing the "shame of dishonouring this great leader". ..... US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had called the restrictions a "rather embarrassing matter that I still have to waive in my own counterpart, the foreign minister of South Africa, not to mention the great leader Nelson Mandela."
Mandela off U.S. terrorism watch list 07/01/2008
The United States government officially listed Nelson Mandela and other ANC members as terrorists in the 1980s due to their militant struggle against the apartheid regime. Mandela remained on U.S. terrorism watch lists until July 2008, when legislation was passed to remove him, long after he became president and won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Key details regarding this designation include:
Initial Labeling: The African National Congress (ANC) was added to U.S. terror lists during the 1980s, which caused members to face1 difficulties entering the country.
The Reason: The designation was tied to the armed struggle led by the ANC against the South African apartheid government.
Removal: In July 2008, U.S. legislation (H.R. 5690) was signed into law, allowing the State Department to waive travel restrictions and officially remove1 Mandela and other ANC members from the list.
Context: Despite his international status, Mandela was considered a "terrorist" by the U.S. government until well into the 21st century. Complete article
Kerry, Corker, Whitehouse Announce Nelson Mandela Will Be Removed From Terror Watch Lists 07/15/2008 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sens. John Kerry, Bob Corker, and Sheldon Whitehouse today announced that former South African President Nelson Mandela will be removed from U.S. terrorism watch lists. President Bush today signed H.R. 5690, a law authorizing the U.S. Department of State to waive U.S. travel restrictions on President Mandela and other members of the African National Congress (ANC.)
My terrorists, your terrorists. 2014 It‘s been said so many times before that it now sounds banal. But it’s true: Yesterday’s terrorists can be tomorrow’s heads of state or allies. The clearest example: the case of Nelson Mandela, whose name wasn’t removed from US terrorist lists until just a few days before his 90th birthday in 2013, shortly before his death. The USA had added Mandela and his organization, the African National Congress (ANC), to the lists during the 1980’s. In the intervening period apartheid was abolished, Mandela was democratically elected president of South Africa and went on to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. .... Once again the situation in the Middle East is a complete shambles. The old enemy Iran – under attack from the People's Mujahedin, which was listed as a terrorist group and yet occasionally gladly utilized by the West – is supporting the Iraqi government. The Iraqi government, which murders but isn’t listed, is under attack from the recently listed and even more brutally murderous Islamic State (IS). Their progress could, in turn, be halted only the Kurds, some of whom, namely those in the PKK, are listed as terrorists. Which is why it has proven tricky, legally, to provide them with weapons. Got that? Me neither.
Nelson Mandela death: Examining the backlash 12/06/2013 What they’re saying: “It’s amazing we forget he was a terrorist.” “Please explain how it is racist to point out that biographical articles about Mandela are leaving out his terrorist actions pre-1991.” What’s the basis: The United States government placed Mandela on a terror watch list, where he stayed until 2008 – long after his term as President of South Africa, and even longer after his receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. He was placed on it because of his group’s militant fight against apartheid. At the time that Umkhonto we Sizwe carried out its first attacks, Mandela was at its helm. The next year, in 1962, he left for Morocco and Ethiopia, where he secretly studied guerrilla warfare. When Mandela returned home later that year, he was arrested and charged with illegal exit of the country and incitement to strike.
Nelson Mandela and Privacy 02/1/2026 During the Cold War, the South African apartheid regime was an ally of the United States in the fight against Communism. The African National Congress was one of the main opponents of the apartheid regime and this is the party that Nelson Mandela remained a part of, even while imprisoned. In the 1970s, the apartheid regime had designated the ANC as a terrorist organization and the United States, under President Ronald Reagan, soon applied the same designation in the 1980s. Due to Cold War dynamics, President Reagan supported the apartheid regime, saying that it was "essential to the free world in its production of minerals." Being designated a terrorist organization means that members of that organization have a more difficult time entering the U.S. One article explained that "When ANC members apply for visas to the USA, they are flagged for questioning and need a waiver to be allowed in the country. In 2002, former ANC chairman Tokyo Sexwale was denied a visa. In 2007, Barbara Masekela, South Africa's ambassador to the United States from 2002 to 2006, was denied a visa to visit her ailing cousin and didn't get a waiver until after the cousin had died..." Despite the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990 and his subsequent election in 1994, the ANC remained on the U.S. terror watch list until 2008. Then Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice noted at the time that ""This is a country with which we now have excellent relations, South Africa, but it's frankly a rather embarrassing matter that I still have to waive in my own counterpart, the foreign minister of South Africa, not to mention the great leader Nelson Mandela." It took the U.S Administration until July 1, 2008 to remove the ANC from the U.S. terror watch list and only after legislation was passed.
Mandela taken off US terror list 07/01/2008 A US senator said the new legislation was a step towards removing the "shame of dishonouring this great leader". ..... US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had called the restrictions a "rather embarrassing matter that I still have to waive in my own counterpart, the foreign minister of South Africa, not to mention the great leader Nelson Mandela."
Mandela off U.S. terrorism watch list 07/01/2008
Were the Nicaraguan Contras labeled a terrorist organization? 01/17/2026
The Nicaraguan Contras were not officially designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government, which instead funded and supported them as "freedom fighters" against the Sandinista government. However, they were widely accused of committing human rights abuses, with reports documenting over 1,300 terrorist attacks against civilians.
Key details regarding this designation include:
Human Rights Violations: Reports from organizations like Human Rights Watch documented that the Contras engaged in targeting civilians, including murders, torture, and rapes.
CIA Assessment: While the CIA attributed these actions to "poor discipline" rather than official policy, CIA documents noted that terror was used as a weapon to prevent cooperation with the government.
Contrasting Views: Throughout the 1980s, while critics and international observers labeled their actions as terrorism, the Reagan administration largely minimized these allegations, maintaining support for the group.
Ultimately, while they were accused of using terrorist tactics, they were not formally labeled a "terrorist organization" by the U.S. government during that period. Complete article
Wikipedia: Contras During the war, the Contras' tactics featured terrorism and human rights violations against civilians.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] The Reagan administration said that the Contras' tactics did not include attacks against civilians.[17] The CIA said that Contra terrorism resulted from "the poor discipline characteristic of irregular forces", that terrorism was not an official military doctrine of the Contras,[17] and that the Contra leader responsible was executed.[17] The Global Terrorism Database reports that Contras carried out more than 1,300 terrorist attacks.[18]
1980s: U.S. Support for Contra Death Squads in Nicaragua 04/27/2021
CONTRAS' ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS CITED 02/20/1986
Wikipedia: United States and state-sponsored terrorism From 1979 to 1990, the United States provided financial, logistical and military support to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua, who used terrorist tactics in their war against the Nicaraguan government[3][91][92][93][94][95] and carried out more than 1300 terrorist attacks.[96] This support persisted despite widespread knowledge of the human rights violations committed by the Contras.[92]
Central America, 1981–1993 Secretary of State Alexander Haig accused the Sandinista government of exporting terrorism to El Salvador and in April 1981, Reagan terminated economic assistance to Nicaragua citing its involvement in supporting Salvadoran rebels. After several failed diplomatic attempts to dissuade Managua from supporting FMLN activities, Reagan opted to support a clandestine guerrilla force to quash the Sandinista training and arming of Salvadoran guerillas. These “Contras,” as in “counterrevolutionaries,” were primarily ex-Nicaraguan National Guard members who had gathered in Honduran territory.
Human Rights Watch: Nicaragua 1989 Under the Reagan administration, U.S. policy toward Nicaragua's Sandinista government was marked by constant hostility. This hostility yielded, among other things, an inordinate amount of publicity about human rights issues. Almost invariably, U.S. pronouncements on human rights exaggerated and distorted the real human rights violations of the Sandinista regime, and exculpated those of the U.S.-supported insurgents, known as the contras. In 1989, under the Bush administration, U.S. policy toward Nicaragua has experienced one major change, in that it appears that the contras have ceased to be regarded as a viable military and political option. The White House has managed to keep the contras alive -- against the wishes of the Central American presidents as repeatedly expressed in the agreements that are part of the peace process -- but the contras have not been a significant fighting force, and they are unlikely to be turned into one after the Nicaraguan elections scheduled for February 1990. This is an important change from a human rights perspective, because the contras were major and systematic violators of the most basic standards of the laws of armed conflict, including by launching indiscriminate attacks on civilians, selectively murdering non-combatants, and mistreating prisoners.
Outlaw States: The United States, Nicaragua, and the Cold War Roots of the War on Terror 2014 In this process, the administration used terrorism as a linguistic weapon that criminalized Nicaragua. The Reagan administration labeled Nicaragua a state sponsor of world terror and insisted on the right to take measures that included an array of military force options.
Terror Is the Most Effective Weapon of Nicaragua's 'Contras' 01/09/1986 EDGAR CHAMORRO
The Nicaraguan Contras were not officially designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government, which instead funded and supported them as "freedom fighters" against the Sandinista government. However, they were widely accused of committing human rights abuses, with reports documenting over 1,300 terrorist attacks against civilians.
Key details regarding this designation include:
Human Rights Violations: Reports from organizations like Human Rights Watch documented that the Contras engaged in targeting civilians, including murders, torture, and rapes.
CIA Assessment: While the CIA attributed these actions to "poor discipline" rather than official policy, CIA documents noted that terror was used as a weapon to prevent cooperation with the government.
Contrasting Views: Throughout the 1980s, while critics and international observers labeled their actions as terrorism, the Reagan administration largely minimized these allegations, maintaining support for the group.
Ultimately, while they were accused of using terrorist tactics, they were not formally labeled a "terrorist organization" by the U.S. government during that period. Complete article
Wikipedia: Contras During the war, the Contras' tactics featured terrorism and human rights violations against civilians.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] The Reagan administration said that the Contras' tactics did not include attacks against civilians.[17] The CIA said that Contra terrorism resulted from "the poor discipline characteristic of irregular forces", that terrorism was not an official military doctrine of the Contras,[17] and that the Contra leader responsible was executed.[17] The Global Terrorism Database reports that Contras carried out more than 1,300 terrorist attacks.[18]
1980s: U.S. Support for Contra Death Squads in Nicaragua 04/27/2021
CONTRAS' ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS CITED 02/20/1986
Wikipedia: United States and state-sponsored terrorism From 1979 to 1990, the United States provided financial, logistical and military support to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua, who used terrorist tactics in their war against the Nicaraguan government[3][91][92][93][94][95] and carried out more than 1300 terrorist attacks.[96] This support persisted despite widespread knowledge of the human rights violations committed by the Contras.[92]
Central America, 1981–1993 Secretary of State Alexander Haig accused the Sandinista government of exporting terrorism to El Salvador and in April 1981, Reagan terminated economic assistance to Nicaragua citing its involvement in supporting Salvadoran rebels. After several failed diplomatic attempts to dissuade Managua from supporting FMLN activities, Reagan opted to support a clandestine guerrilla force to quash the Sandinista training and arming of Salvadoran guerillas. These “Contras,” as in “counterrevolutionaries,” were primarily ex-Nicaraguan National Guard members who had gathered in Honduran territory.
Human Rights Watch: Nicaragua 1989 Under the Reagan administration, U.S. policy toward Nicaragua's Sandinista government was marked by constant hostility. This hostility yielded, among other things, an inordinate amount of publicity about human rights issues. Almost invariably, U.S. pronouncements on human rights exaggerated and distorted the real human rights violations of the Sandinista regime, and exculpated those of the U.S.-supported insurgents, known as the contras. In 1989, under the Bush administration, U.S. policy toward Nicaragua has experienced one major change, in that it appears that the contras have ceased to be regarded as a viable military and political option. The White House has managed to keep the contras alive -- against the wishes of the Central American presidents as repeatedly expressed in the agreements that are part of the peace process -- but the contras have not been a significant fighting force, and they are unlikely to be turned into one after the Nicaraguan elections scheduled for February 1990. This is an important change from a human rights perspective, because the contras were major and systematic violators of the most basic standards of the laws of armed conflict, including by launching indiscriminate attacks on civilians, selectively murdering non-combatants, and mistreating prisoners.
Outlaw States: The United States, Nicaragua, and the Cold War Roots of the War on Terror 2014 In this process, the administration used terrorism as a linguistic weapon that criminalized Nicaragua. The Reagan administration labeled Nicaragua a state sponsor of world terror and insisted on the right to take measures that included an array of military force options.
Terror Is the Most Effective Weapon of Nicaragua's 'Contras' 01/09/1986 EDGAR CHAMORRO
Did the Nazis label the French resistance or Jews in ghettos as "terrorists?" 02/20/2026
Yes, the Nazi regime and their collaborators routinely labeled both French resistance fighters and Jewish people in ghettos as "terrorists" (along with terms like "bandits," "criminals," or "insurgents") to justify their brutal suppression and murder. This labeling was a key propaganda tactic to dehumanize them and paint Nazi actions as a necessary struggle against violent threats.
The French Resistance
Nazi and Vichy Labels: German occupation authorities and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France consistently denounced Resistance fighters as terroristes and saboteurs.
Propaganda: Prominent collaborators, such as Philippe Henriot, used radio broadcasts to warn the French public against helping these "terrorists".
Dehumanization: Nazis used these labels to justify holding civilians hostage and executing them as collective punishment for resistance actions.
Propaganda Posters: The Nazis produced propaganda, such as the infamous "Red Poster" (l'Affiche Rouge), to depict resistance members (particularly foreigners and communists) as criminal terrorists.
Jews in Ghettos
Violent Threat Narrative: Nazi propaganda identified European Jews as a violent threat to the German state, often labeling them "bandits" and "terrorists" to justify their segregation and eventual extermination.
Warsaw Ghetto: During the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Nazi propaganda and official reports framed the Jewish resistance as a "terrorist" insurgency requiring total annihilation.
Archival Evidence: News wire photos from 1941, such as in the Warsaw Ghetto, were captioned by the Nazis as "Jewish terror in Warsaw".
In both cases, the labeling of resistance or oppressed populations as "terrorists" was a deliberate attempt to invert the roles of victim and aggressor, presenting the brutal, illegal actions of the Nazi regime as a fight against subversion. Complete article
Resistance makes no difference, whether in France or Palestine 11/05/2023 They founded the "French Resistance," which consisted of hundreds of thousands of French men and women who fought to end Nazi occupation and paid the price for it. Without a doubt, no occupying force is willing to listen and only understands the language of force. The "French Resistance" fought for the freedom of their country, but the Nazis labeled this resistance as sabotage and terrorist operations. They held ordinary people hostage and punished them collectively and brutally for any action by the resistance forces.
Wikipedia: Maquis (World War II) The term became an honorific meaning "armed resistance fighter". The Maquis came to symbolize the French Resistance and was used to describe resistance groups that fought in France before the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. .... All three groups were deemed "terrorists" by the Vichy regime of the French State and by German authorities and other neighbouring fascist regimes. Other (rare) local groups did not affiliate with these organisations.
Minneapolis Protests Sound a Lot Like the French Resistance 02/1/2026 Minnesota is not occupied France, but historians see some parallels with the neighborhood groups and solidarity networks responding to federal operations today ...... In WWII France, the collaborationist Vichy regime consistently denounced Resistance fighters as terrorists, threatened their families and attempted to turn the population against them through reprisals on civilian hostages. Throughout the war, truth was consistently warped by censorship, propaganda and the constant rewriting of reality. The victims of deportation raids, much like undocumented immigrants in Trump’s America, were systematically dehumanized and said to be at odds with the safety and well-being of French citizens.
6 World War II Propaganda Broadcasters 08/13/2013 In the dying days of the Nazi occupation of France, propagandist Philippe Henriot lit up the airwaves with a series of pro-German radio broadcasts aimed at pacifying the resistance. The French-born Henriot was a right wing firebrand who had eagerly aligned himself with the collaborationist Vichy government. In January 1944, he was appointed as the regime’s chief propagandist and spin doctor. An eloquent speaker, Henriot played on the anxieties of the French people by arguing that the hardships they faced stemmed from their continued association with the Allies and native resistance groups, whom he labeled “terrorists.” He also used his radio programs as a platform to counter the arguments espoused by the Free French Forces, who were then broadcasting in exile from the BBC in London. Henriot’s twice-daily radio shows were appointment listening for the French public—many of whom called him the “French Goebbels”—but his influence was ultimately short-lived. In June 1944, he was assassinated in a targeted hit by French resistance fighters.
1939–1945 Domestic Propaganda in Wartime On posters and in speeches, newsreels, and radio programs, Nazis demonized and dehumanized European Jews. They depicted European Jews as carriers of deadly diseases such as typhus to justify segregating them in ghettos. They identified European Jews as a violent threat, calling them bandits and terrorists. Nazi propaganda held the Jews responsible for causing World War II, for which they would have to pay. All Jews, Hitler’s propagandists proclaimed, were accomplices in an international plot to enslave the non-Jewish world. Using such false claims, Nazi propaganda presented its war against Jews as a struggle between good and evil.
The Warsaw Ghetto of Yesterday is the Gaza of Today 08/14/2024 The heroic fighters of the Jewish Underground in Warsaw back in 1943 were derided as terrorists by their oppressor. As were the fighters of the French resistance. And as were Soviet and Yugoslav Partisans. All at the hands of an occupying power whose bloodlust was justified on the basis of an ideology that had conditioned its adherents to believe that there exists in our world a hierarchy of human worth, and that cultural, racial, and civilizational purity is coterminous with progress.
Holocaust Encyclopedia: Ghettos During the Holocaust, the creation of ghettos was a key step in the Nazi process of brutally separating, persecuting, and ultimately destroying Europe's Jews. Jews were forced to move into the ghettos, where living conditions were miserable. Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities.
Jewish Terror in Warsaw 01/11/2014 Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: News wire photo of Jews in Warsaw Ghetto. Verso: "Jewish terror in Warsaw" and "Jews in Warsaw" with a date stamp of November 7, 1941.
Was the French Resistance during the World War II occupation of France a terrorist organization? 2015
Lifted from obscurity: resistance as sacrifice and memory 07/30/2025
Yes, the Nazi regime and their collaborators routinely labeled both French resistance fighters and Jewish people in ghettos as "terrorists" (along with terms like "bandits," "criminals," or "insurgents") to justify their brutal suppression and murder. This labeling was a key propaganda tactic to dehumanize them and paint Nazi actions as a necessary struggle against violent threats.
The French Resistance
Nazi and Vichy Labels: German occupation authorities and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France consistently denounced Resistance fighters as terroristes and saboteurs.
Propaganda: Prominent collaborators, such as Philippe Henriot, used radio broadcasts to warn the French public against helping these "terrorists".
Dehumanization: Nazis used these labels to justify holding civilians hostage and executing them as collective punishment for resistance actions.
Propaganda Posters: The Nazis produced propaganda, such as the infamous "Red Poster" (l'Affiche Rouge), to depict resistance members (particularly foreigners and communists) as criminal terrorists.
Jews in Ghettos
Violent Threat Narrative: Nazi propaganda identified European Jews as a violent threat to the German state, often labeling them "bandits" and "terrorists" to justify their segregation and eventual extermination.
Warsaw Ghetto: During the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Nazi propaganda and official reports framed the Jewish resistance as a "terrorist" insurgency requiring total annihilation.
Archival Evidence: News wire photos from 1941, such as in the Warsaw Ghetto, were captioned by the Nazis as "Jewish terror in Warsaw".
In both cases, the labeling of resistance or oppressed populations as "terrorists" was a deliberate attempt to invert the roles of victim and aggressor, presenting the brutal, illegal actions of the Nazi regime as a fight against subversion. Complete article
Resistance makes no difference, whether in France or Palestine 11/05/2023 They founded the "French Resistance," which consisted of hundreds of thousands of French men and women who fought to end Nazi occupation and paid the price for it. Without a doubt, no occupying force is willing to listen and only understands the language of force. The "French Resistance" fought for the freedom of their country, but the Nazis labeled this resistance as sabotage and terrorist operations. They held ordinary people hostage and punished them collectively and brutally for any action by the resistance forces.
Wikipedia: Maquis (World War II) The term became an honorific meaning "armed resistance fighter". The Maquis came to symbolize the French Resistance and was used to describe resistance groups that fought in France before the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. .... All three groups were deemed "terrorists" by the Vichy regime of the French State and by German authorities and other neighbouring fascist regimes. Other (rare) local groups did not affiliate with these organisations.
Minneapolis Protests Sound a Lot Like the French Resistance 02/1/2026 Minnesota is not occupied France, but historians see some parallels with the neighborhood groups and solidarity networks responding to federal operations today ...... In WWII France, the collaborationist Vichy regime consistently denounced Resistance fighters as terrorists, threatened their families and attempted to turn the population against them through reprisals on civilian hostages. Throughout the war, truth was consistently warped by censorship, propaganda and the constant rewriting of reality. The victims of deportation raids, much like undocumented immigrants in Trump’s America, were systematically dehumanized and said to be at odds with the safety and well-being of French citizens.
6 World War II Propaganda Broadcasters 08/13/2013 In the dying days of the Nazi occupation of France, propagandist Philippe Henriot lit up the airwaves with a series of pro-German radio broadcasts aimed at pacifying the resistance. The French-born Henriot was a right wing firebrand who had eagerly aligned himself with the collaborationist Vichy government. In January 1944, he was appointed as the regime’s chief propagandist and spin doctor. An eloquent speaker, Henriot played on the anxieties of the French people by arguing that the hardships they faced stemmed from their continued association with the Allies and native resistance groups, whom he labeled “terrorists.” He also used his radio programs as a platform to counter the arguments espoused by the Free French Forces, who were then broadcasting in exile from the BBC in London. Henriot’s twice-daily radio shows were appointment listening for the French public—many of whom called him the “French Goebbels”—but his influence was ultimately short-lived. In June 1944, he was assassinated in a targeted hit by French resistance fighters.
1939–1945 Domestic Propaganda in Wartime On posters and in speeches, newsreels, and radio programs, Nazis demonized and dehumanized European Jews. They depicted European Jews as carriers of deadly diseases such as typhus to justify segregating them in ghettos. They identified European Jews as a violent threat, calling them bandits and terrorists. Nazi propaganda held the Jews responsible for causing World War II, for which they would have to pay. All Jews, Hitler’s propagandists proclaimed, were accomplices in an international plot to enslave the non-Jewish world. Using such false claims, Nazi propaganda presented its war against Jews as a struggle between good and evil.
The Warsaw Ghetto of Yesterday is the Gaza of Today 08/14/2024 The heroic fighters of the Jewish Underground in Warsaw back in 1943 were derided as terrorists by their oppressor. As were the fighters of the French resistance. And as were Soviet and Yugoslav Partisans. All at the hands of an occupying power whose bloodlust was justified on the basis of an ideology that had conditioned its adherents to believe that there exists in our world a hierarchy of human worth, and that cultural, racial, and civilizational purity is coterminous with progress.
Holocaust Encyclopedia: Ghettos During the Holocaust, the creation of ghettos was a key step in the Nazi process of brutally separating, persecuting, and ultimately destroying Europe's Jews. Jews were forced to move into the ghettos, where living conditions were miserable. Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities.
Jewish Terror in Warsaw 01/11/2014 Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: News wire photo of Jews in Warsaw Ghetto. Verso: "Jewish terror in Warsaw" and "Jews in Warsaw" with a date stamp of November 7, 1941.
Was the French Resistance during the World War II occupation of France a terrorist organization? 2015
Lifted from obscurity: resistance as sacrifice and memory 07/30/2025
Did the United States government support the Pol Pot regime even after they knew about the genocide because the alternative was Vietnam? 02/22/2026
Yes, following the 1979 Vietnamese invasion that ousted the Khmer Rouge, the United States, along with China, supported the deposed Pol Pot regime. This policy was driven by Cold War geopolitics, specifically the desire to counter Soviet-backed Vietnam in Southeast Asia. The US supported the Khmer Rouge-dominated coalition in the UN and provided, at minimum, indirect logistical support to their forces on the Thai border.
Key details regarding this policy include: Geopolitical Motives: The U.S. viewed Vietn
am as a Soviet proxy. After the Sino-Soviet split, the US sought better relations with China, which was already backing Pol Pot to limit Vietnamese expansion.
Support Method: While directly arming the Khmer Rouge is debated, the US supported the Khmer Rouge-dominated coalition at the UN until 1993 and provided financial aid that facilitated their survival.
"Enemy of My Enemy": Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, admitted encouraging Chinese support for the regime, famously stating that while Pol Pot was an "abomination," he was preferable to Vietnamese domination.
Timing: This support continued despite awareness of the genocide (1975–1979), with significant support flowing as late as 1980. Complete article
U.S. Involvement in the Cambodian War and Genocide
In the Dock With Pol Pot: Uncle Sam 06/24/1997 By ROBERT SCHEER But it is also strange to be watching televised international news reports that depict Pol Pot as an aberrant force, a monster of his own creation. Does no one recall or care that Pol Pot’s continued ability to wreak havoc for two decades is a direct result of an immoral connivance between China and the U.S.? Or is it just too inconvenient to remember this as the media get set to celebrate the return of Hong Kong to the rule of Beijing? What hypocrisy for Madeleine Albright to now proclaim that “we will be seeking to make sure that there is international justice carried out against this major war criminal.” Pol Pot’s major war crimes were committed between 1975 and 1979 and the U.S. government knew the full extent of that horror during all the ensuing years in which it tried to bring him back to power as part of the U.S.-China sponsored coalition.
The U.S. Is Even More Guilty Than Pol Pot 04/23/1998 Pol Pot died in April 1998, when the U.S. government was making noises about "trying" him for "genocide". Nowhere was there any mention of U.S. support for the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot, though this had been well documented. ...... "The US not only helped to create conditions that brought Cambodia's Khmer Rouge to power in 1975, but actively supported the genocidal force, politically and financially. By January 1980, the US was secretly funding Pol Pot's exiled forces on the Thai border. The extent of this support -- $85 million from 1980-86 -- was revealed 6 years later in correspondence between congressional lawyer Jonathan Winer, then counsel to Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation." "In 1981, Pres. Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, said, "I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. The US", he added, "winked publicly" as China sent arms to the Khmer Rouge(KR) through Thailand." "In 1980, under US pressure, the World Food Program handed over food worth $12 million to the Thai Army to pass on to the KR. According to former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke,'20,000 to 40,000 Pol Pot guerrillas benefited. This aid helped restore the KR to a fighting force, based in Thailand, from which it destabilized Cambodia for more than a decade.'"
Wikileaks: US supported Khmer Rouge to weaken Soviet-allied Vietnamese communists 05/29/2015 Classified 1978 diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks show the US government supported the Khmer Rouge, in order to maintain “stability” in Cambodia and weaken the Vietnamese communists, which were allied with the Soviet Union. .... Yet while the US government was aware of the horrific actions of the Pol Pot regime, with a July 21 cable from the US Embassy in Laos estimating 2 million people had died at its hands, it refused overtures from the country’s previous leadership to challenge the Pol Pot government’s right to represent Cambodia at the United Nations. ..... Renowned muckraking journalist John Pilger, who witnessed firsthand the brutality of Pol Pot’s regime, has detailed how the US and UK helped give rise to the Khmer Rouge in the first place. Pilger explained in detail in 2000:
How Thatcher gave Pol Pot a hand 04/17/2000 Almost two million Cambodians died as a result of Year Zero. John Pilger argues that, without the complicity of the US and Britain, it may never have happened.
US supports Pol Pot Jan. 1980 In January 1980 the United States government began secretly funding Pol Pot and the Communist Party of Kampuchea (known as the Khmer Rouge).
Jonathan Neale "A People's History Of The Vietnam War" 2004 This provides a credible description of how the Kmer Rouge genocide was partly enabled by the war in Vietnam, although unintentionally; and how after Vietnam invaded the USA intentionally tried to put Pol Pot and the Kmer Rouge back in power and refused to recognize Vietnam's authority. This is consistant with other credible reports on the subject, although mainstream media practically never mentions it.
Wikipedia: Allegations of United States support for the Khmer Rouge The United States (U.S.) voted for the Khmer Rouge and the Khmer Rouge-dominated Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK) to retain Cambodia's United Nations (UN) seat until as late as 1993, long after the Khmer Rouge had been mostly deposed by Vietnam during the 1979 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and ruled just a small part of the country. It has also been reported that the U.S. encouraged the government of China to provide military support for the Khmer Rouge, a claim which was denied by Zbigniew Brzezinski.[1][2][3][4][5][6] There have also been related allegations by several sources, notably Michael Haas, which claim that the U.S. directly armed the Khmer Rouge in order to weaken the influence of Vietnam and the Soviet Union in Southeast Asia. These allegations have been disputed by the U.S. government and by journalist Nate Thayer, who argued that little, if any, American aid actually reached the Khmer Rouge. Academic scholar Peter Maguire writes that the U.S. "gave $85 million to the Khmer Rouge between 1980 and 1986," roughly half of which occurred "during the crucial years of 1979 and 1980".[7]
Why did the US government support the Khmer Rouge if they were communists? Early 2025 The United States supported the Khmer Rouge after they were removed from power because it served as a way to politically, militarily, and financially harm Vietnam, which was allied with the Soviet Union. The US also sought better relations with China, which worried about Soviet expansion and had previously backed Pol Pot's regime. This was a clear-cut example of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," despite the Khmer Rouge's genocidal record. From 1979 onward, Vietnam controlled much of Cambodia through the PRK, and it clearly sided with the Soviet bloc. China, by then on hostile terms with the Soviet Union, feared a strengthened Moscow-Hanoi partnership right on its doorstep. As part of the Sino-Soviet split, the Chinese leadership took the view that any forces that opposed Vietnam would be useful. Having just begun to normalize relations with Beijing, the United States found common ground with China in viewing Vietnam as an expansion of Soviet influence in Southeast Asia.
I've seen people debate the fact Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were backed by the CIA, particularly to destabilize Vietnam. Is there truth to this? Early 2025 By the late 1980s, Congress started catching on to how far things had gone. Lawmakers passed legislation specifically forbidding U.S. aid from ending up with the Khmer Rouge. On paper, that should have closed the door. In reality, covert funding and logistical support to the coalition kept flowing. There are well documented cases of U.S. funded supplies landing in Khmer Rouge hands anyway. By 1989, Vietnam finally pulled its forces out of Cambodia. With their exit, the U.S. quietly began stepping back too. The Cold War chessboard was shifting, and by the early 90s, Washington’s focus had flipped. The priority now was cutting deals, brokering peace, and making sure the Khmer Rouge did not muscle their way back into power. Looking back, it is clear the U.S. did not directly arm the Khmer Rouge, but they made a deliberate decision to back the anti Vietnamese resistance, fully aware the Khmer Rouge were the strongest faction in the mix. Weakening Vietnam’s hold on the region mattered more than who was getting fed or armed along the way. It was not an accident. It was a calculated Cold War strategy. But here is where it gets even murkier. A lot of the aid flowing into Khmer Rouge controlled areas was not just feeding fighters. It was also aimed at civilians, thousands of displaced Cambodians who were starving and caught in the middle.
Yes, following the 1979 Vietnamese invasion that ousted the Khmer Rouge, the United States, along with China, supported the deposed Pol Pot regime. This policy was driven by Cold War geopolitics, specifically the desire to counter Soviet-backed Vietnam in Southeast Asia. The US supported the Khmer Rouge-dominated coalition in the UN and provided, at minimum, indirect logistical support to their forces on the Thai border.
Key details regarding this policy include: Geopolitical Motives: The U.S. viewed Vietn
am as a Soviet proxy. After the Sino-Soviet split, the US sought better relations with China, which was already backing Pol Pot to limit Vietnamese expansion.
Support Method: While directly arming the Khmer Rouge is debated, the US supported the Khmer Rouge-dominated coalition at the UN until 1993 and provided financial aid that facilitated their survival.
"Enemy of My Enemy": Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, admitted encouraging Chinese support for the regime, famously stating that while Pol Pot was an "abomination," he was preferable to Vietnamese domination.
Timing: This support continued despite awareness of the genocide (1975–1979), with significant support flowing as late as 1980. Complete article
U.S. Involvement in the Cambodian War and Genocide
In the Dock With Pol Pot: Uncle Sam 06/24/1997 By ROBERT SCHEER But it is also strange to be watching televised international news reports that depict Pol Pot as an aberrant force, a monster of his own creation. Does no one recall or care that Pol Pot’s continued ability to wreak havoc for two decades is a direct result of an immoral connivance between China and the U.S.? Or is it just too inconvenient to remember this as the media get set to celebrate the return of Hong Kong to the rule of Beijing? What hypocrisy for Madeleine Albright to now proclaim that “we will be seeking to make sure that there is international justice carried out against this major war criminal.” Pol Pot’s major war crimes were committed between 1975 and 1979 and the U.S. government knew the full extent of that horror during all the ensuing years in which it tried to bring him back to power as part of the U.S.-China sponsored coalition.
The U.S. Is Even More Guilty Than Pol Pot 04/23/1998 Pol Pot died in April 1998, when the U.S. government was making noises about "trying" him for "genocide". Nowhere was there any mention of U.S. support for the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot, though this had been well documented. ...... "The US not only helped to create conditions that brought Cambodia's Khmer Rouge to power in 1975, but actively supported the genocidal force, politically and financially. By January 1980, the US was secretly funding Pol Pot's exiled forces on the Thai border. The extent of this support -- $85 million from 1980-86 -- was revealed 6 years later in correspondence between congressional lawyer Jonathan Winer, then counsel to Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation." "In 1981, Pres. Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, said, "I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. The US", he added, "winked publicly" as China sent arms to the Khmer Rouge(KR) through Thailand." "In 1980, under US pressure, the World Food Program handed over food worth $12 million to the Thai Army to pass on to the KR. According to former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke,'20,000 to 40,000 Pol Pot guerrillas benefited. This aid helped restore the KR to a fighting force, based in Thailand, from which it destabilized Cambodia for more than a decade.'"
Wikileaks: US supported Khmer Rouge to weaken Soviet-allied Vietnamese communists 05/29/2015 Classified 1978 diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks show the US government supported the Khmer Rouge, in order to maintain “stability” in Cambodia and weaken the Vietnamese communists, which were allied with the Soviet Union. .... Yet while the US government was aware of the horrific actions of the Pol Pot regime, with a July 21 cable from the US Embassy in Laos estimating 2 million people had died at its hands, it refused overtures from the country’s previous leadership to challenge the Pol Pot government’s right to represent Cambodia at the United Nations. ..... Renowned muckraking journalist John Pilger, who witnessed firsthand the brutality of Pol Pot’s regime, has detailed how the US and UK helped give rise to the Khmer Rouge in the first place. Pilger explained in detail in 2000:
How Thatcher gave Pol Pot a hand 04/17/2000 Almost two million Cambodians died as a result of Year Zero. John Pilger argues that, without the complicity of the US and Britain, it may never have happened.
US supports Pol Pot Jan. 1980 In January 1980 the United States government began secretly funding Pol Pot and the Communist Party of Kampuchea (known as the Khmer Rouge).
Jonathan Neale "A People's History Of The Vietnam War" 2004 This provides a credible description of how the Kmer Rouge genocide was partly enabled by the war in Vietnam, although unintentionally; and how after Vietnam invaded the USA intentionally tried to put Pol Pot and the Kmer Rouge back in power and refused to recognize Vietnam's authority. This is consistant with other credible reports on the subject, although mainstream media practically never mentions it.
Wikipedia: Allegations of United States support for the Khmer Rouge The United States (U.S.) voted for the Khmer Rouge and the Khmer Rouge-dominated Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK) to retain Cambodia's United Nations (UN) seat until as late as 1993, long after the Khmer Rouge had been mostly deposed by Vietnam during the 1979 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and ruled just a small part of the country. It has also been reported that the U.S. encouraged the government of China to provide military support for the Khmer Rouge, a claim which was denied by Zbigniew Brzezinski.[1][2][3][4][5][6] There have also been related allegations by several sources, notably Michael Haas, which claim that the U.S. directly armed the Khmer Rouge in order to weaken the influence of Vietnam and the Soviet Union in Southeast Asia. These allegations have been disputed by the U.S. government and by journalist Nate Thayer, who argued that little, if any, American aid actually reached the Khmer Rouge. Academic scholar Peter Maguire writes that the U.S. "gave $85 million to the Khmer Rouge between 1980 and 1986," roughly half of which occurred "during the crucial years of 1979 and 1980".[7]
Why did the US government support the Khmer Rouge if they were communists? Early 2025 The United States supported the Khmer Rouge after they were removed from power because it served as a way to politically, militarily, and financially harm Vietnam, which was allied with the Soviet Union. The US also sought better relations with China, which worried about Soviet expansion and had previously backed Pol Pot's regime. This was a clear-cut example of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," despite the Khmer Rouge's genocidal record. From 1979 onward, Vietnam controlled much of Cambodia through the PRK, and it clearly sided with the Soviet bloc. China, by then on hostile terms with the Soviet Union, feared a strengthened Moscow-Hanoi partnership right on its doorstep. As part of the Sino-Soviet split, the Chinese leadership took the view that any forces that opposed Vietnam would be useful. Having just begun to normalize relations with Beijing, the United States found common ground with China in viewing Vietnam as an expansion of Soviet influence in Southeast Asia.
I've seen people debate the fact Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were backed by the CIA, particularly to destabilize Vietnam. Is there truth to this? Early 2025 By the late 1980s, Congress started catching on to how far things had gone. Lawmakers passed legislation specifically forbidding U.S. aid from ending up with the Khmer Rouge. On paper, that should have closed the door. In reality, covert funding and logistical support to the coalition kept flowing. There are well documented cases of U.S. funded supplies landing in Khmer Rouge hands anyway. By 1989, Vietnam finally pulled its forces out of Cambodia. With their exit, the U.S. quietly began stepping back too. The Cold War chessboard was shifting, and by the early 90s, Washington’s focus had flipped. The priority now was cutting deals, brokering peace, and making sure the Khmer Rouge did not muscle their way back into power. Looking back, it is clear the U.S. did not directly arm the Khmer Rouge, but they made a deliberate decision to back the anti Vietnamese resistance, fully aware the Khmer Rouge were the strongest faction in the mix. Weakening Vietnam’s hold on the region mattered more than who was getting fed or armed along the way. It was not an accident. It was a calculated Cold War strategy. But here is where it gets even murkier. A lot of the aid flowing into Khmer Rouge controlled areas was not just feeding fighters. It was also aimed at civilians, thousands of displaced Cambodians who were starving and caught in the middle.
Do large parts of the world recognize Hamas and other opponents of Israel labeled as "terrorists" by Israel as freedom fighters opposing Israeli occupation? 02/22/2026
Whether Hamas and similar groups are viewed as "terrorists" or "freedom fighters" depends heavily on a nation's geopolitical alignment and its interpretation of international law regarding resistance and occupation.
International Designation as "Terrorists"
While a significant number of countries have designated Hamas as a terrorist organization, this is far from a universal consensus:
Western Nations: The United States, European Union, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and several other nations have formally designated the entirety of Hamas as a terrorist organization.
Selective Designations: Some countries and entities previously distinguished between Hamas's political and military wings (the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades), labeling only the latter as terrorists, though many have since moved to designate the group in its entirety.
The United Nations: The UN as a whole has not designated Hamas as a terrorist organization. Efforts to pass such a resolution have failed to reach the required two-thirds majority in the General Assembly.
Recognition as "Freedom Fighters" or Resistance
Many nations and organizations outside the Western sphere view Hamas and other armed groups as legitimate actors in a struggle for national liberation:
Regional Support: Countries such as Iran, Turkey, Qatar, Syria, and Algeria often describe Hamas as a "national liberation movement" or a "resistance movement" fighting against Israeli occupation.
Global South Perspectives: In many parts of the Arab world, Africa, and Latin America, these groups are framed as "freedom fighters" (Arabic: mujahideen or fida'iyeen) exercising their right to self-determination.
Non-Recognition of Israel: Roughly 26 UN member states (mostly in the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation) do not recognize Israel at all, which often correlates with viewing its opponents as legitimate resistance.
The Role of Terminology
The debate often centers on the distinction between tactics and goals:
Terrorist Label: Critics and designating nations point to the deliberate targeting of civilians, suicide bombings, and hostage-taking as definitive acts of terrorism.
Freedom Fighter Label: Supporters argue that under international law (such as UN Resolution 37/43), peoples struggling for independence from colonial or foreign occupation have a right to "armed struggle". Complete article
9 out of 195 countries have designated Hamas as a terrorist organisation. 09/10/2024 Countries like Qatar and Turkey have provided support to Hamas, while others, such as Israel and the United States, have designated it as a terrorist organisation.
Top UN Aid Official Says Hamas Is Not a Terrorist Group 02/16/2024 A top United Nations (UN) official on February 14 denied that Hamas is a terrorist group. “Hamas is not a terrorist group for us … It’s a political movement,” said Martin Griffiths, the UN’s under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, who directs the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. In response, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan called the United Nations “a terror-excusing, Hamas-promoting, victim-blaming organization that has lost every ounce of credibility.” Griffiths later condemned Hamas’s October 7 massacre and appeared to modify his earlier comment, saying on X, “Just to clarify: Hamas is not on the list of groups designated as terrorist organizations by the United Nations Security Council.” ....... Several Countries and Entities Recognize Hamas as a Terrorist Organization. White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby addressed Griffiths’ comments, saying, “Hamas is a terrorist organization. We’ve said so. It is. It just is. And you don’t have to look any further than what they did on the seventh of October to see it in stark terms.” Countries and entities that have designated Hamas as a terrorist group include the United States, the European Union, Canada, Japan, Australia, and Israel but not the UN.
Global Sanctions: Hamas and PIJ
What is Hamas? What to know about its origins, leaders and funding 10/10/2023
Senator Collins, Bipartisan Group Urge UN to Designate Hamas as a Terrorist Organization 11/17/2023 “Since October 1997, the US Department of Treasury has designated Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Additionally, these groups have been listed as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) since October 2001. Numerous other countries and international entities rightfully have designated Hamas as a terrorist organization, including Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Israel, the Organization of American States, Paraguay, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Switzerland is also actively exploring legal avenues to designate Hamas as a terrorist entity,” they concluded.
National Counterterrorism Center: Hamas
Hamas as Freedom Fighters in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 05/03/2025
Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? October 2005 When the Sheikh brought up the definition of terrorism, I thought of an old bumper sticker that showed two silhouetted figures of armed men. Below the figures was the caption, “One is a freedom fighter, one is a terrorist. Can you tell the difference?” ....... “But when you fight military occupying forces, that is not terrorism,” Kaouk said through an interpreter. Our visit presented an opportunity for Hezbollah to argue that its modus operandi has more in common with George Washington-esque freedom fighting than traditional notions of terrorism. Kaouk took care to point out that Hezbollah condemned the 9/11 attacks and criticizes the killing of civilians by insurgents in Iraq. “Whoever is resisting the occupation in Iraq may have started with patriotic aims, but other people have joined in with other goals,” he said. “In Lebanon, it was resistance with completely patriotic motives.” ...... Israel’s supporters are no less contemptuous of the Hezbollah and Hamas record and their claims to be waging a legitimate struggle. “They are both terrorist organizations, period,” says Marcia Goldstone, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Indianapolis. “They both have blown people up at Passover Seders, discotheques, and coffee shops. That is terrorism.”
International Reactions to the Hamas Attack on Israel 10/11/2023 At least forty-four nations have condemned Hamas and decried its tactics as terrorism, but regional players such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, and Iraq have pinned responsibility on Israel. ...... Around the globe, representatives of approximately a hundred countries have reacted to the war in varying ways. At least forty-four nations have publicly expressed their unequivocal condemnation of Hamas and explicitly decried its tactics as terrorism. Others, including regional players such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, and Iraq, have placed responsibility on Israel for the attacks. Approximately twenty countries have explicitly stated that Israel has the right to defend itself, while others have called for an immediate de-escalation of violence. Over the weekend, several countries altered their initial statements as details of the attack unfolded. The UAE, Bahrain, and China all modified their primary statements to include explicit condemnation of the killing and kidnapping of Israeli civilians. The UAE and Bahrain also revised their initial statements to specifically condemn Hamas.
Freedom Fighter or Terrorist? 2023 Finally, the article concludes that a freedom fighter is someone who fights for legal rights in conformity with the law of armed conflict; while a terrorist is someone who fights to achieve illegal advantages by means of targeting civilian populations, civilian objects and other protected persons and objects.
“Freedom Fighters”? Hamas and Hezbollah Are Terrorist Organizations; Any Attempt to Claim Otherwise is Condemnable 11/13/2024 For years now, there are voices which would have the world view some of the most bloodthirsty and cruel terror organizations the world has ever known, i.e. Hamas and Hezbollah, not as the terrorists they are, but as “freedom fighters”. Since the outbreak of the Gaza war, this bias has been pushed even further. They are being chanted in pro-Palestinian rallies, openly declared on banners on campuses of the most prestigious universities of the world, and are even heard in certain Israeli circles.
Wikipedia: Hamas Hamas has attacked Israeli civilians, including through suicide bombings as well as launching rockets at Israeli cities. Australia, Canada, Ecuador, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Paraguay, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union have designated Hamas as a terrorist organisation. In 2018 and 2023, motions at the United Nations to condemn Hamas as terrorist organization failed to meet the two-thirds threshold.[c][66][67]
Wikipedia: International recognition of Israel As of January 2026, 166 of the 192 other member states of the United Nations (UN) recognize Israel. 26 UN member states do not formally recognize Israel: 14 members of the Arab League (Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen); 10 non-Arab members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Niger, and Pakistan); and 2 other members Cuba and North Korea.[25
Responsible Reporting: Labeling Hamas as a Terrorist Organization 12/01/2023
Whether Hamas and similar groups are viewed as "terrorists" or "freedom fighters" depends heavily on a nation's geopolitical alignment and its interpretation of international law regarding resistance and occupation.
International Designation as "Terrorists"
While a significant number of countries have designated Hamas as a terrorist organization, this is far from a universal consensus:
Western Nations: The United States, European Union, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and several other nations have formally designated the entirety of Hamas as a terrorist organization.
Selective Designations: Some countries and entities previously distinguished between Hamas's political and military wings (the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades), labeling only the latter as terrorists, though many have since moved to designate the group in its entirety.
The United Nations: The UN as a whole has not designated Hamas as a terrorist organization. Efforts to pass such a resolution have failed to reach the required two-thirds majority in the General Assembly.
Recognition as "Freedom Fighters" or Resistance
Many nations and organizations outside the Western sphere view Hamas and other armed groups as legitimate actors in a struggle for national liberation:
Regional Support: Countries such as Iran, Turkey, Qatar, Syria, and Algeria often describe Hamas as a "national liberation movement" or a "resistance movement" fighting against Israeli occupation.
Global South Perspectives: In many parts of the Arab world, Africa, and Latin America, these groups are framed as "freedom fighters" (Arabic: mujahideen or fida'iyeen) exercising their right to self-determination.
Non-Recognition of Israel: Roughly 26 UN member states (mostly in the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation) do not recognize Israel at all, which often correlates with viewing its opponents as legitimate resistance.
The Role of Terminology
The debate often centers on the distinction between tactics and goals:
Terrorist Label: Critics and designating nations point to the deliberate targeting of civilians, suicide bombings, and hostage-taking as definitive acts of terrorism.
Freedom Fighter Label: Supporters argue that under international law (such as UN Resolution 37/43), peoples struggling for independence from colonial or foreign occupation have a right to "armed struggle". Complete article
9 out of 195 countries have designated Hamas as a terrorist organisation. 09/10/2024 Countries like Qatar and Turkey have provided support to Hamas, while others, such as Israel and the United States, have designated it as a terrorist organisation.
Top UN Aid Official Says Hamas Is Not a Terrorist Group 02/16/2024 A top United Nations (UN) official on February 14 denied that Hamas is a terrorist group. “Hamas is not a terrorist group for us … It’s a political movement,” said Martin Griffiths, the UN’s under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, who directs the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. In response, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan called the United Nations “a terror-excusing, Hamas-promoting, victim-blaming organization that has lost every ounce of credibility.” Griffiths later condemned Hamas’s October 7 massacre and appeared to modify his earlier comment, saying on X, “Just to clarify: Hamas is not on the list of groups designated as terrorist organizations by the United Nations Security Council.” ....... Several Countries and Entities Recognize Hamas as a Terrorist Organization. White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby addressed Griffiths’ comments, saying, “Hamas is a terrorist organization. We’ve said so. It is. It just is. And you don’t have to look any further than what they did on the seventh of October to see it in stark terms.” Countries and entities that have designated Hamas as a terrorist group include the United States, the European Union, Canada, Japan, Australia, and Israel but not the UN.
Global Sanctions: Hamas and PIJ
What is Hamas? What to know about its origins, leaders and funding 10/10/2023
Senator Collins, Bipartisan Group Urge UN to Designate Hamas as a Terrorist Organization 11/17/2023 “Since October 1997, the US Department of Treasury has designated Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Additionally, these groups have been listed as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) since October 2001. Numerous other countries and international entities rightfully have designated Hamas as a terrorist organization, including Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Israel, the Organization of American States, Paraguay, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Switzerland is also actively exploring legal avenues to designate Hamas as a terrorist entity,” they concluded.
National Counterterrorism Center: Hamas
Hamas as Freedom Fighters in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 05/03/2025
Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? October 2005 When the Sheikh brought up the definition of terrorism, I thought of an old bumper sticker that showed two silhouetted figures of armed men. Below the figures was the caption, “One is a freedom fighter, one is a terrorist. Can you tell the difference?” ....... “But when you fight military occupying forces, that is not terrorism,” Kaouk said through an interpreter. Our visit presented an opportunity for Hezbollah to argue that its modus operandi has more in common with George Washington-esque freedom fighting than traditional notions of terrorism. Kaouk took care to point out that Hezbollah condemned the 9/11 attacks and criticizes the killing of civilians by insurgents in Iraq. “Whoever is resisting the occupation in Iraq may have started with patriotic aims, but other people have joined in with other goals,” he said. “In Lebanon, it was resistance with completely patriotic motives.” ...... Israel’s supporters are no less contemptuous of the Hezbollah and Hamas record and their claims to be waging a legitimate struggle. “They are both terrorist organizations, period,” says Marcia Goldstone, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Indianapolis. “They both have blown people up at Passover Seders, discotheques, and coffee shops. That is terrorism.”
International Reactions to the Hamas Attack on Israel 10/11/2023 At least forty-four nations have condemned Hamas and decried its tactics as terrorism, but regional players such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, and Iraq have pinned responsibility on Israel. ...... Around the globe, representatives of approximately a hundred countries have reacted to the war in varying ways. At least forty-four nations have publicly expressed their unequivocal condemnation of Hamas and explicitly decried its tactics as terrorism. Others, including regional players such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, and Iraq, have placed responsibility on Israel for the attacks. Approximately twenty countries have explicitly stated that Israel has the right to defend itself, while others have called for an immediate de-escalation of violence. Over the weekend, several countries altered their initial statements as details of the attack unfolded. The UAE, Bahrain, and China all modified their primary statements to include explicit condemnation of the killing and kidnapping of Israeli civilians. The UAE and Bahrain also revised their initial statements to specifically condemn Hamas.
Freedom Fighter or Terrorist? 2023 Finally, the article concludes that a freedom fighter is someone who fights for legal rights in conformity with the law of armed conflict; while a terrorist is someone who fights to achieve illegal advantages by means of targeting civilian populations, civilian objects and other protected persons and objects.
“Freedom Fighters”? Hamas and Hezbollah Are Terrorist Organizations; Any Attempt to Claim Otherwise is Condemnable 11/13/2024 For years now, there are voices which would have the world view some of the most bloodthirsty and cruel terror organizations the world has ever known, i.e. Hamas and Hezbollah, not as the terrorists they are, but as “freedom fighters”. Since the outbreak of the Gaza war, this bias has been pushed even further. They are being chanted in pro-Palestinian rallies, openly declared on banners on campuses of the most prestigious universities of the world, and are even heard in certain Israeli circles.
Wikipedia: Hamas Hamas has attacked Israeli civilians, including through suicide bombings as well as launching rockets at Israeli cities. Australia, Canada, Ecuador, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Paraguay, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union have designated Hamas as a terrorist organisation. In 2018 and 2023, motions at the United Nations to condemn Hamas as terrorist organization failed to meet the two-thirds threshold.[c][66][67]
Wikipedia: International recognition of Israel As of January 2026, 166 of the 192 other member states of the United Nations (UN) recognize Israel. 26 UN member states do not formally recognize Israel: 14 members of the Arab League (Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen); 10 non-Arab members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Niger, and Pakistan); and 2 other members Cuba and North Korea.[25
Responsible Reporting: Labeling Hamas as a Terrorist Organization 12/01/2023
How many people have been fired from mainstream media for supporting Palestine? 02/26/2026
Based on reports covering the period from October 2023 through 2024, dozens of media workers in the U.S. and internationally have faced retaliation—including terminations, suspensions, and forced resignations—for expressing support for Palestine or criticizing Israel's actions in Gaza.
A report by the National Writers Union, released in September 2024, tracked 44 cases of retaliation affecting more than 100 media workers in the U.S. alone since October 7, 2023.
Notable Terminations and Suspensions (2023–2024):
Jackson Frank: A sports writer for PhillyVoice was fired for posting "Solidarity with Palestine" on social media.
David Velasco: Editor-in-chief of Artforum was fired after publishing an open letter from artists calling for a ceasefire.
Michael Eisen: Editor-in-chief of the academic journal eLife was removed after sharing an article from The Onion titled "Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words To Condemn Hamas".
Steve Bell: A cartoonist for The Guardian had his contract terminated after submitting a cartoon of Benjamin Netanyahu that the paper deemed to contain an antisemitic trope.
Zahraa Al-Akhrass: A journalist for Canada's Global News was dismissed for social media posts highlighting the suffering of Palestinians.
Kasem Raad: A journalist for Welt TV (Germany) was fired for questioning internal pro-Israel policies.
Issam Adwan: An Associated Press reporter in Gaza was suspended for past social media posts criticizing Israel.
BBC Arabic Reporters: Six reporters were taken off air in October 2023 for liking or sharing pro-Palestine posts.
MSNBC: Reportedly removed at least three Muslim anchors from the airwaves.
Contextual Factors:
"The Palestine Exception": Observers have noted an "unprecedented wave of workplace discrimination" and a "Palestine exception" to free speech, where journalists, particularly those of color, face, higher risks for expressing solidarity with Palestine. Social Media Scrutiny: Many firings occurred due to personal social media activity, sometimes posts made years prior. Internal Newsroom Conflicts: Many journalists reported feeling that U.S. newsrooms treat coverage of Palestine with "fear and contempt," leading to self-censorship.
This list does not include the hundreds of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza, which many media rights groups describe as a separate, systematic effort to silence reporting on the war. Complete article
Watching the watchdogs: Fear in newsrooms silences pro-Palestine voices 11/01/2023 Dismissals and sidelining of journalists and pro-Palestinian commentators are increasing as Israel scrambles to dominate the Western media narrative. ..... A sinister new tactic tries to silence journalists not because of their reporting, but over social media opinions they posted, sometimes years ago. Since the start of the latest Israeli war on Gaza, a number of media professionals have been fired or suspended in such circumstances. Jackson Frank, a sports reporter in Philadelphia, was fired by PhillyVoice.com because of his tweets supporting the Palestinian cause. Zahraa Al-Akhrass was dismissed by her employer, Canada’s Global News, due to her social media posts drawing attention to the suffering of the Palestinians. Kasem Raad was fired from his job at Welt TV, a subsidiary of German media company Axel Springer, for questioning internal pro-Israel policies.
‘The Palestine exception’: why pro-Palestinian voices are suppressed in the US 11/01/2023 Americans are being fired and facing threats for speaking out. Lawyers fear it will get worse – but they are ready to defend against the onslaught. The open letter, published in Artforum on 19 October, declared: “We support Palestinian liberation and call for an end to the killing and harming of all civilians.” It was signed by thousands of artists, scholars and cultural workers, including the art world magazine’s editor, David Velasco. A week later, Velasco was fired from the publication he had worked at for 18 years, reportedly after pushback from Martin Eisenberg, a major arts patron and Bed Bath & Beyond heir. In a post on Artforum that evening, the magazine’s publishers said that the pro-Palestine letter, which initially did not mention Hamas’s attack that killed 1,400 Israelis, was “not consistent with Artforum’s editorial process”. At least four Artforum editors have resigned in protest against Velasco’s firing.
‘I’m so dehumanized’: Journalists say U.S. newsrooms treat Palestine with fear and contempt 09/09/2025 A monthslong Prism investigation reveals pro-Israel bias at the leadership levels of mainstream U.S. newsrooms, which intensified after Oct. 7, 2023
Meta’s Broken Promises 12/21/2023 Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook.
U.S. journalists face retaliation, censorship for supporting Palestinian human rights 11/03/2023 A growing list of journalists have been silenced for criticizing Israel’s military campaign and highlighting its deadly impact on Palestinians.
Bosses Are Retaliating Against Workers for Showing Solidarity With Palestinians 11/22/2024 Workers are losing their jobs and professional opportunities for expressing pro-Palestinian sentiment. Others are choosing to self-censor amid a climate of fear.
Six BBC Reporters Taken Off Air for Liking, Posting Pro-Palestine Tweets 10/20/2023 “As Palestinians lose their lives, Western media loses the last shreds of its credibility,” independent journalist Alan MacLeod said on social media in response to the news.
Israel responsible for 2/3 of press killings worldwide; Hegseth threatens Anthropic; Omar and Tlaib heckle Trump at SOTU 02/25/2026 Israel responsible for 2/3 of all press killings worldwide in 2024 and 2025, according to CPJ report: The killings of journalists and media workers reached an all-time high in 2025, according to a special report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), with Israel responsible for two-thirds of all press killings. “This marks back-to-back record years for press fatalities due to Israel’s continued and unprecedented targeting of journalists and media workers. More than 60% of the 86 members of the press killed by Israeli fire in 2025 were Palestinians reporting from Gaza, where human rights groups and U.N. experts agree a genocide is taking place,” CPJ said. This is the second consecutive year-on-year record for press deaths since CPJ began collecting data more than three decades ago. The Israeli military has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since CPJ began documentation in 1992. The report also noted that drone killings of press members are on the rise, from two in 2023 to 39 in 2025. The report highlighted specific cases of Palestinian journalists killed, including Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher and a contributor to Drop Site, who was assassinated on March 24, 2025 in an Israeli strike on his car in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza. You can read Hossam Shabat’s last article here.
'I Will Not Yield My Values:' Fired AP Journalist Emily Wilder Speaks Out After Right-Wing Smears 05/25/2021 In her first TV interview, "Democracy Now!" speaks with Emily Wilder, the young reporter fired by the Associated Press after she was targeted in a Republican smear campaign for her pro-Palestinian activism in college. Wilder is Jewish and was a member of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace at Stanford University before she graduated in 2020. She was two weeks into her new job with the AP when the Stanford College Republicans singled out some of her past social media posts, triggering a conservative frenzy. The AP announced Wilder’s firing shortly thereafter, citing unspecified violations of its social media policy. "Less than 48 hours after Stanford College Republicans began to post about me, I was fired,” says Wilder. "I was not given an explanation for what social media policy I had violated." Over 100 AP journalists have signed an open letter to management protesting the decision to fire Wilder, which came just days after Israel demolished the building housing AP offices and other media organizations in Gaza. Journalism professor Janine Zacharia, a former Jerusalem bureau chief for The Washington Post who taught Wilder at Stanford, says the episode is an example of how much pressure news organizations face on Middle East coverage. "I am very aware, perhaps more than most, to the sensitivities around the questions of bias and reporting on the conflict," says Zacharia. "In this case it wasn’t about bias."
Full [There's no way this is full, especially since many more lost their job after it was posted] List of Journalists Fired Over Pro-Palestinian Remarks 10/25/2023 At least two journalists have been sacked from their jobs after expressing support for Palestinians since the latest outbreak of violence between Israel and Hamas. Jackson Frank, a sports writer for Philadelphia local news outlet PhillyVoice, and Michael Eisen, editor-in-chief of life sciences academic journal eLife, have both been removed from their posts over remarks they have made regarding the conflict since fighting broke out on October 7. Meanwhile, other reporters have been taken off air over their social media posts and one cartoonist had their contract with a British newspaper terminated after penning an illustration attacking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which many thought included an antisemitic trope. The removals follow several previous sackings at international news outlets.
Islam Channel: In 2025, 129 journalists were killed, the deadliest year in over 30 years, with Israel responsible for two‑thirds of the deaths, mostly Palestinians, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent nonprofit that tracks press freedom and journalist safety. Drone attacks killed 39 journalists, 28 in Gaza. CPJ warns these killings threaten freedom of information and call for urgent accountability. 02/26/2026
Attacks on the Press in 2020 CPJ’s advocacy helped at least 75 journalists secure an early release from prison in 2020. As one of them said, “I was informed that CPJ had taken up my detention. [The jail official] told me that my chances of release have increased as CPJ has written to various officials. In those cold days, when I barely had clothes to keep me warm, I felt warm and strong that CPJ had listed my case among the top cases of journalists that need serious attention.”
Middle Eastern and Muslim media workers face retaliation for covering Gaza 06/03/2024 A new report details cases of retaliation and discrimination against media workers advocating for Palestinian liberation and against the killing of journalists in Gaza between October 2023 and February
Based on reports covering the period from October 2023 through 2024, dozens of media workers in the U.S. and internationally have faced retaliation—including terminations, suspensions, and forced resignations—for expressing support for Palestine or criticizing Israel's actions in Gaza.
A report by the National Writers Union, released in September 2024, tracked 44 cases of retaliation affecting more than 100 media workers in the U.S. alone since October 7, 2023.
Notable Terminations and Suspensions (2023–2024):
Jackson Frank: A sports writer for PhillyVoice was fired for posting "Solidarity with Palestine" on social media.
David Velasco: Editor-in-chief of Artforum was fired after publishing an open letter from artists calling for a ceasefire.
Michael Eisen: Editor-in-chief of the academic journal eLife was removed after sharing an article from The Onion titled "Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words To Condemn Hamas".
Steve Bell: A cartoonist for The Guardian had his contract terminated after submitting a cartoon of Benjamin Netanyahu that the paper deemed to contain an antisemitic trope.
Zahraa Al-Akhrass: A journalist for Canada's Global News was dismissed for social media posts highlighting the suffering of Palestinians.
Kasem Raad: A journalist for Welt TV (Germany) was fired for questioning internal pro-Israel policies.
Issam Adwan: An Associated Press reporter in Gaza was suspended for past social media posts criticizing Israel.
BBC Arabic Reporters: Six reporters were taken off air in October 2023 for liking or sharing pro-Palestine posts.
MSNBC: Reportedly removed at least three Muslim anchors from the airwaves.
Contextual Factors:
"The Palestine Exception": Observers have noted an "unprecedented wave of workplace discrimination" and a "Palestine exception" to free speech, where journalists, particularly those of color, face, higher risks for expressing solidarity with Palestine. Social Media Scrutiny: Many firings occurred due to personal social media activity, sometimes posts made years prior. Internal Newsroom Conflicts: Many journalists reported feeling that U.S. newsrooms treat coverage of Palestine with "fear and contempt," leading to self-censorship.
This list does not include the hundreds of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza, which many media rights groups describe as a separate, systematic effort to silence reporting on the war. Complete article
Watching the watchdogs: Fear in newsrooms silences pro-Palestine voices 11/01/2023 Dismissals and sidelining of journalists and pro-Palestinian commentators are increasing as Israel scrambles to dominate the Western media narrative. ..... A sinister new tactic tries to silence journalists not because of their reporting, but over social media opinions they posted, sometimes years ago. Since the start of the latest Israeli war on Gaza, a number of media professionals have been fired or suspended in such circumstances. Jackson Frank, a sports reporter in Philadelphia, was fired by PhillyVoice.com because of his tweets supporting the Palestinian cause. Zahraa Al-Akhrass was dismissed by her employer, Canada’s Global News, due to her social media posts drawing attention to the suffering of the Palestinians. Kasem Raad was fired from his job at Welt TV, a subsidiary of German media company Axel Springer, for questioning internal pro-Israel policies.
‘The Palestine exception’: why pro-Palestinian voices are suppressed in the US 11/01/2023 Americans are being fired and facing threats for speaking out. Lawyers fear it will get worse – but they are ready to defend against the onslaught. The open letter, published in Artforum on 19 October, declared: “We support Palestinian liberation and call for an end to the killing and harming of all civilians.” It was signed by thousands of artists, scholars and cultural workers, including the art world magazine’s editor, David Velasco. A week later, Velasco was fired from the publication he had worked at for 18 years, reportedly after pushback from Martin Eisenberg, a major arts patron and Bed Bath & Beyond heir. In a post on Artforum that evening, the magazine’s publishers said that the pro-Palestine letter, which initially did not mention Hamas’s attack that killed 1,400 Israelis, was “not consistent with Artforum’s editorial process”. At least four Artforum editors have resigned in protest against Velasco’s firing.
‘I’m so dehumanized’: Journalists say U.S. newsrooms treat Palestine with fear and contempt 09/09/2025 A monthslong Prism investigation reveals pro-Israel bias at the leadership levels of mainstream U.S. newsrooms, which intensified after Oct. 7, 2023
Meta’s Broken Promises 12/21/2023 Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook.
U.S. journalists face retaliation, censorship for supporting Palestinian human rights 11/03/2023 A growing list of journalists have been silenced for criticizing Israel’s military campaign and highlighting its deadly impact on Palestinians.
Bosses Are Retaliating Against Workers for Showing Solidarity With Palestinians 11/22/2024 Workers are losing their jobs and professional opportunities for expressing pro-Palestinian sentiment. Others are choosing to self-censor amid a climate of fear.
Six BBC Reporters Taken Off Air for Liking, Posting Pro-Palestine Tweets 10/20/2023 “As Palestinians lose their lives, Western media loses the last shreds of its credibility,” independent journalist Alan MacLeod said on social media in response to the news.
Israel responsible for 2/3 of press killings worldwide; Hegseth threatens Anthropic; Omar and Tlaib heckle Trump at SOTU 02/25/2026 Israel responsible for 2/3 of all press killings worldwide in 2024 and 2025, according to CPJ report: The killings of journalists and media workers reached an all-time high in 2025, according to a special report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), with Israel responsible for two-thirds of all press killings. “This marks back-to-back record years for press fatalities due to Israel’s continued and unprecedented targeting of journalists and media workers. More than 60% of the 86 members of the press killed by Israeli fire in 2025 were Palestinians reporting from Gaza, where human rights groups and U.N. experts agree a genocide is taking place,” CPJ said. This is the second consecutive year-on-year record for press deaths since CPJ began collecting data more than three decades ago. The Israeli military has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since CPJ began documentation in 1992. The report also noted that drone killings of press members are on the rise, from two in 2023 to 39 in 2025. The report highlighted specific cases of Palestinian journalists killed, including Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher and a contributor to Drop Site, who was assassinated on March 24, 2025 in an Israeli strike on his car in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza. You can read Hossam Shabat’s last article here.
'I Will Not Yield My Values:' Fired AP Journalist Emily Wilder Speaks Out After Right-Wing Smears 05/25/2021 In her first TV interview, "Democracy Now!" speaks with Emily Wilder, the young reporter fired by the Associated Press after she was targeted in a Republican smear campaign for her pro-Palestinian activism in college. Wilder is Jewish and was a member of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace at Stanford University before she graduated in 2020. She was two weeks into her new job with the AP when the Stanford College Republicans singled out some of her past social media posts, triggering a conservative frenzy. The AP announced Wilder’s firing shortly thereafter, citing unspecified violations of its social media policy. "Less than 48 hours after Stanford College Republicans began to post about me, I was fired,” says Wilder. "I was not given an explanation for what social media policy I had violated." Over 100 AP journalists have signed an open letter to management protesting the decision to fire Wilder, which came just days after Israel demolished the building housing AP offices and other media organizations in Gaza. Journalism professor Janine Zacharia, a former Jerusalem bureau chief for The Washington Post who taught Wilder at Stanford, says the episode is an example of how much pressure news organizations face on Middle East coverage. "I am very aware, perhaps more than most, to the sensitivities around the questions of bias and reporting on the conflict," says Zacharia. "In this case it wasn’t about bias."
Full [There's no way this is full, especially since many more lost their job after it was posted] List of Journalists Fired Over Pro-Palestinian Remarks 10/25/2023 At least two journalists have been sacked from their jobs after expressing support for Palestinians since the latest outbreak of violence between Israel and Hamas. Jackson Frank, a sports writer for Philadelphia local news outlet PhillyVoice, and Michael Eisen, editor-in-chief of life sciences academic journal eLife, have both been removed from their posts over remarks they have made regarding the conflict since fighting broke out on October 7. Meanwhile, other reporters have been taken off air over their social media posts and one cartoonist had their contract with a British newspaper terminated after penning an illustration attacking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which many thought included an antisemitic trope. The removals follow several previous sackings at international news outlets.
Islam Channel: In 2025, 129 journalists were killed, the deadliest year in over 30 years, with Israel responsible for two‑thirds of the deaths, mostly Palestinians, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent nonprofit that tracks press freedom and journalist safety. Drone attacks killed 39 journalists, 28 in Gaza. CPJ warns these killings threaten freedom of information and call for urgent accountability. 02/26/2026
Attacks on the Press in 2020 CPJ’s advocacy helped at least 75 journalists secure an early release from prison in 2020. As one of them said, “I was informed that CPJ had taken up my detention. [The jail official] told me that my chances of release have increased as CPJ has written to various officials. In those cold days, when I barely had clothes to keep me warm, I felt warm and strong that CPJ had listed my case among the top cases of journalists that need serious attention.”
Middle Eastern and Muslim media workers face retaliation for covering Gaza 06/03/2024 A new report details cases of retaliation and discrimination against media workers advocating for Palestinian liberation and against the killing of journalists in Gaza between October 2023 and February
Who are the best experts on propaganda? 02/23/2026
Based on historical analysis and contemporary media studies, several individuals and institutions are recognized for their expertise in studying, documenting, and countering propaganda. The field spans from foundational theorists who analyzed the mechanics of persuasion in the early 20th century to modern experts tackling AI, disinformation, and media manipulation.
Here are some of the most prominent experts on propaganda:
Prominent Historical and Foundational Experts
Edward Bernays: Often considered the "father of public relations," his 1928 book Propaganda is a seminal text on the engineering of consent and mass manipulation.
Harold Lasswell: A political scientist whose 1927 work, Propaganda Technique in the World War, is a foundational analysis of state-sponsored propaganda.
Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman: Authors of Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which introduced the "propaganda model" to explain how corporate media filters information.
Jacques Ellul: Author of Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, which provides a comprehensive, sociological view of how propaganda operates in modern society.
Walter Lippmann: A journalist who analyzed the role of media, propaganda, and public opinion in democracy in the 1920s.
Modern Experts and Researchers
Renee Hobbs: A professor at the University of Rhode Island and a leading expert on digital and media literacy who studies propaganda in the modern digital age.
Peter Pomerantsev: Author and researcher specializing in disinformation and propaganda, particularly in Russia, often focusing on how to counter information warfare.
Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, & Hal Roberts: Researchers at Harvard University who authored Network Propaganda, a major study on partisan media, disinformation, and the 2016 US election.
Barbie Zelizer: An Annenberg School for Communication professor who researches journalism and propaganda in times of crisis.
Garth S. Jowett & Victoria O'Donnell: Authors of Propaganda and Persuasion, a widely used academic text that provides a comprehensive history and analysis of the subject.
Current Investigative Projects and Organizations
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) - The Propaganda Monitor: An investigative project featuring experts such as Maxime Audinet (Russian politics) and David Colon (Sciences Po) who analyze modern geopolitical propaganda.
Chatham House (Russia and Eurasia Programme): Researchers like Jaroslava Barbieri and Samantha de Bendern focus on disinformation.
Vanderbilt University Researchers (Brett Benson, Brett Goldstein): Experts currently analyzing the threat of AI-driven propaganda.
These experts often focus on the evolution of propaganda from traditional media to, more recently, digital platforms, AI-driven disinformation, and the blurring lines between news and information warfare. Complete article
AI propaganda has arrived; Vanderbilt experts call for action 08/25/2025 Vanderbilt University researchers Brett Benson and Brett Goldstein convey the growing threat of AI-driven propaganda and the essential role researchers play in addressing it. “Academic researchers must work urgently to map how artificial intelligence, open-source intelligence and online influence campaigns converge to serve hostile state objectives.”
Propaganda Education for a Digital Age 03/04/2021 Why teaching about propaganda and all the ways it is disseminated is an important step toward understanding and strengthening our democracy. ...... Most of us hear the word propaganda and don't think about it as a modern occurrence. Professor Renee Hobbs says we encounter propaganda at least once an hour in the news, entertainment, social media, and more. She is an expert in digital and media literacy who's been studying propaganda for decades. She believes learning to identify and understand propaganda is crucial for our democracy and also in navigating the overwhelming digital world we live. Yet, propaganda is often missing from school curriculums or is taught in outdated ways. I wanted to know more about propaganda education, but first, I asked Renee what propaganda is today and how we encounter it.
Knowing the Enemy: Propaganda Experts, Intelligence, and Total War (1941–1945) Fall 2020
RSF launches The Propaganda Monitor, an investigative project on the geopolitics of propaganda 09/30/2024 The fight against propaganda and disinformation is central to Reporters Without Borders (RSF)’s battle to promote reliable journalism – which is why the media watchdog launched The Propaganda Monitor on 30 September 2024. This multimedia platform aims to expose the many faces and tactics behind propaganda worldwide, bolstering the public’s understanding of the information space and helping them navigate it more safely. The first season is devoted to Russian propaganda.
‘Network Propaganda’ explored 10/25/2018 New book takes a closer look at media and American politics ....... The trio trace that market from its genesis in the 1960s to the rise of Rush Limbaugh in the early 1990s and the creation of Fox News. “Network Propaganda” examines media coverage surrounding major events, and topics of media coverage during the election time span, including disinformation and how it was spread and consumed. The book also examines spikes in media coverage, like the one at the start of Robert Mueller’s investigation into foreign interference in the 2016 election. Case studies illustrate the researchers’ findings throughout the book, offering in-depth analysis of how trends in partisan media evolved to their present state, and how media outlets are grappling with concerns of trust. “The thing that most surprised us, and to us seems to be most contrary to the prevailing narrative of the moment, is that it’s professional mainstream media — both in its professional centrist model, and in its highly commercially successful right-wing model — [that] is the scaffolding on which everything else is built,” Benkler said.
ELLUL’S “PROPAGANDA”: OVER FIFTY YEARS’ WARNING, BUT ARE WE LISTENING? 04/16/2020 Taken together, Ellul lays out the dangers of propaganda, and thereby highlights what modern people might do to protect ourselves from it. Ellul’s book speaks to many issues facing the world today, which may not be traditional defense concerns, but which frame the goals within which we develop strategies and doctrines. Since we are affected, we would be wise to understand disinformation’s effects- as well as to prepare to defend against them if we are called to do so. Ellul’s work can help us both accept and address that responsibility. Jon Herrmann (Lt Col, USAF, Ret.) is a career information operations professional with over 25 years’ experience in defense information and strategy. He currently serves as a consultant and contracted expert faculty on analytic tradecraft, complexity theory, and cognition for the Department of Defense. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Army War College, the U.S. Army, or the Department of Defense.
‘Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation’ 04/23/2025 In a new book, Annenberg School for Communication professor Barbie Zelizer and other communication scholars explore media and propaganda across borders, topics, and timelines. As a researcher of journalism, particularly journalism produced in times of crisis, Annenberg School for Communication professor Barbie Zelizer has noticed that the term “propaganda” seems to have fallen out of favor in public discourse. Instead, members of the public, as well as reporters and researchers, focus on terms like disinformation, misinformation, and fake news.
Wikipedia: History of propaganda Walter Lippmann, returning from his post as an army propagandist, became a strong critic of the CPI.[72]: 302, 308–310 In the early 1920s, he explored the role of journalism and propaganda in democratic societies in his books Liberty and the News, Public Opinion, and The Phantom Public.[72]: 313–318 . The documentary film Century of the Self, by Adam Curtis, explores the influence of these ideas on public relations and politics throughout the 20th century. According to Alex Carey, one distinctive feature of the 20th century was "the professionalising and institutionalising of propaganda", as it became an increasingly prominent, sophisticated, and self-conscious tactic of both government and business.[73] The development of radio broadcasting in the early 20th century created new possibilities to spread propaganda, and this led to the creation of the International Convention concerning the Use of Broadcasting in the Cause of Peace, which was meant to prevent propaganda for war.[74][75] A similar prohibition on propaganda for war was later included in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which was adopted in 1966, and which also prohibited "advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence".[76][77]
How to Know What's Real: How to Know What’s Really Propaganda 09/04/2024
Wikipedia: Propaganda model
Wikipedia: Edward Bernays
How to fight (and win) an information war | Peter Pomerantsev | TEDxMidAtlantic 10/03/2024
Disinformation: Analysis and research
'How to Win an Information War' details fighting with — and against — propaganda 03/14/2024 Peter Pomerantsev co-founded a project recording Russian atrocities in Ukraine to combat Russian disinformation. His new book profiles a WWII propagandist who targeted the Nazi regime.
A Propaganda Model Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky Excerpted from Manufacturing Consent, 1988
Inside America’s Invisible Government 11/01/2016 By John Pilger Propaganda is most effective when our consent is engineered by those with a fine education— Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Columbia—and with careers on the BBC, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post.
Featured Books & eBooks: Propaganda
Information Technology for Detecting Fakes and Propaganda Based on Machine Learning and Sentiment Analysis 03/18/2024 Modern approaches to identifying fakes and propaganda use a combination of technological innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and advanced analytical techniques to navigate the complex landscape of disinformation.
Digital Propaganda Techniques: The Specificities of Neo-Propaganda 2025 Propaganda has evolved from traditional methods to digital platforms, becoming a powerful tool for influencing public opinion. This study examines neo-propaganda, analyzing its techniques, historical roots, and contemporary implications.
International Terrorism and Social Threats of Artificial Intelligence May 2024 To counter these threats, researchers and technologists are developing new approaches to detecting and combating AI-generated propaganda and disinformation.
Based on historical analysis and contemporary media studies, several individuals and institutions are recognized for their expertise in studying, documenting, and countering propaganda. The field spans from foundational theorists who analyzed the mechanics of persuasion in the early 20th century to modern experts tackling AI, disinformation, and media manipulation.
Here are some of the most prominent experts on propaganda:
Prominent Historical and Foundational Experts
Edward Bernays: Often considered the "father of public relations," his 1928 book Propaganda is a seminal text on the engineering of consent and mass manipulation.
Harold Lasswell: A political scientist whose 1927 work, Propaganda Technique in the World War, is a foundational analysis of state-sponsored propaganda.
Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman: Authors of Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which introduced the "propaganda model" to explain how corporate media filters information.
Jacques Ellul: Author of Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, which provides a comprehensive, sociological view of how propaganda operates in modern society.
Walter Lippmann: A journalist who analyzed the role of media, propaganda, and public opinion in democracy in the 1920s.
Modern Experts and Researchers
Renee Hobbs: A professor at the University of Rhode Island and a leading expert on digital and media literacy who studies propaganda in the modern digital age.
Peter Pomerantsev: Author and researcher specializing in disinformation and propaganda, particularly in Russia, often focusing on how to counter information warfare.
Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, & Hal Roberts: Researchers at Harvard University who authored Network Propaganda, a major study on partisan media, disinformation, and the 2016 US election.
Barbie Zelizer: An Annenberg School for Communication professor who researches journalism and propaganda in times of crisis.
Garth S. Jowett & Victoria O'Donnell: Authors of Propaganda and Persuasion, a widely used academic text that provides a comprehensive history and analysis of the subject.
Current Investigative Projects and Organizations
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) - The Propaganda Monitor: An investigative project featuring experts such as Maxime Audinet (Russian politics) and David Colon (Sciences Po) who analyze modern geopolitical propaganda.
Chatham House (Russia and Eurasia Programme): Researchers like Jaroslava Barbieri and Samantha de Bendern focus on disinformation.
Vanderbilt University Researchers (Brett Benson, Brett Goldstein): Experts currently analyzing the threat of AI-driven propaganda.
These experts often focus on the evolution of propaganda from traditional media to, more recently, digital platforms, AI-driven disinformation, and the blurring lines between news and information warfare. Complete article
AI propaganda has arrived; Vanderbilt experts call for action 08/25/2025 Vanderbilt University researchers Brett Benson and Brett Goldstein convey the growing threat of AI-driven propaganda and the essential role researchers play in addressing it. “Academic researchers must work urgently to map how artificial intelligence, open-source intelligence and online influence campaigns converge to serve hostile state objectives.”
Propaganda Education for a Digital Age 03/04/2021 Why teaching about propaganda and all the ways it is disseminated is an important step toward understanding and strengthening our democracy. ...... Most of us hear the word propaganda and don't think about it as a modern occurrence. Professor Renee Hobbs says we encounter propaganda at least once an hour in the news, entertainment, social media, and more. She is an expert in digital and media literacy who's been studying propaganda for decades. She believes learning to identify and understand propaganda is crucial for our democracy and also in navigating the overwhelming digital world we live. Yet, propaganda is often missing from school curriculums or is taught in outdated ways. I wanted to know more about propaganda education, but first, I asked Renee what propaganda is today and how we encounter it.
Knowing the Enemy: Propaganda Experts, Intelligence, and Total War (1941–1945) Fall 2020
RSF launches The Propaganda Monitor, an investigative project on the geopolitics of propaganda 09/30/2024 The fight against propaganda and disinformation is central to Reporters Without Borders (RSF)’s battle to promote reliable journalism – which is why the media watchdog launched The Propaganda Monitor on 30 September 2024. This multimedia platform aims to expose the many faces and tactics behind propaganda worldwide, bolstering the public’s understanding of the information space and helping them navigate it more safely. The first season is devoted to Russian propaganda.
‘Network Propaganda’ explored 10/25/2018 New book takes a closer look at media and American politics ....... The trio trace that market from its genesis in the 1960s to the rise of Rush Limbaugh in the early 1990s and the creation of Fox News. “Network Propaganda” examines media coverage surrounding major events, and topics of media coverage during the election time span, including disinformation and how it was spread and consumed. The book also examines spikes in media coverage, like the one at the start of Robert Mueller’s investigation into foreign interference in the 2016 election. Case studies illustrate the researchers’ findings throughout the book, offering in-depth analysis of how trends in partisan media evolved to their present state, and how media outlets are grappling with concerns of trust. “The thing that most surprised us, and to us seems to be most contrary to the prevailing narrative of the moment, is that it’s professional mainstream media — both in its professional centrist model, and in its highly commercially successful right-wing model — [that] is the scaffolding on which everything else is built,” Benkler said.
ELLUL’S “PROPAGANDA”: OVER FIFTY YEARS’ WARNING, BUT ARE WE LISTENING? 04/16/2020 Taken together, Ellul lays out the dangers of propaganda, and thereby highlights what modern people might do to protect ourselves from it. Ellul’s book speaks to many issues facing the world today, which may not be traditional defense concerns, but which frame the goals within which we develop strategies and doctrines. Since we are affected, we would be wise to understand disinformation’s effects- as well as to prepare to defend against them if we are called to do so. Ellul’s work can help us both accept and address that responsibility. Jon Herrmann (Lt Col, USAF, Ret.) is a career information operations professional with over 25 years’ experience in defense information and strategy. He currently serves as a consultant and contracted expert faculty on analytic tradecraft, complexity theory, and cognition for the Department of Defense. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Army War College, the U.S. Army, or the Department of Defense.
‘Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation’ 04/23/2025 In a new book, Annenberg School for Communication professor Barbie Zelizer and other communication scholars explore media and propaganda across borders, topics, and timelines. As a researcher of journalism, particularly journalism produced in times of crisis, Annenberg School for Communication professor Barbie Zelizer has noticed that the term “propaganda” seems to have fallen out of favor in public discourse. Instead, members of the public, as well as reporters and researchers, focus on terms like disinformation, misinformation, and fake news.
Wikipedia: History of propaganda Walter Lippmann, returning from his post as an army propagandist, became a strong critic of the CPI.[72]: 302, 308–310 In the early 1920s, he explored the role of journalism and propaganda in democratic societies in his books Liberty and the News, Public Opinion, and The Phantom Public.[72]: 313–318 . The documentary film Century of the Self, by Adam Curtis, explores the influence of these ideas on public relations and politics throughout the 20th century. According to Alex Carey, one distinctive feature of the 20th century was "the professionalising and institutionalising of propaganda", as it became an increasingly prominent, sophisticated, and self-conscious tactic of both government and business.[73] The development of radio broadcasting in the early 20th century created new possibilities to spread propaganda, and this led to the creation of the International Convention concerning the Use of Broadcasting in the Cause of Peace, which was meant to prevent propaganda for war.[74][75] A similar prohibition on propaganda for war was later included in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which was adopted in 1966, and which also prohibited "advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence".[76][77]
How to Know What's Real: How to Know What’s Really Propaganda 09/04/2024
Wikipedia: Propaganda model
Wikipedia: Edward Bernays
How to fight (and win) an information war | Peter Pomerantsev | TEDxMidAtlantic 10/03/2024
Disinformation: Analysis and research
'How to Win an Information War' details fighting with — and against — propaganda 03/14/2024 Peter Pomerantsev co-founded a project recording Russian atrocities in Ukraine to combat Russian disinformation. His new book profiles a WWII propagandist who targeted the Nazi regime.
A Propaganda Model Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky Excerpted from Manufacturing Consent, 1988
Inside America’s Invisible Government 11/01/2016 By John Pilger Propaganda is most effective when our consent is engineered by those with a fine education— Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Columbia—and with careers on the BBC, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post.
Featured Books & eBooks: Propaganda
Information Technology for Detecting Fakes and Propaganda Based on Machine Learning and Sentiment Analysis 03/18/2024 Modern approaches to identifying fakes and propaganda use a combination of technological innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and advanced analytical techniques to navigate the complex landscape of disinformation.
Digital Propaganda Techniques: The Specificities of Neo-Propaganda 2025 Propaganda has evolved from traditional methods to digital platforms, becoming a powerful tool for influencing public opinion. This study examines neo-propaganda, analyzing its techniques, historical roots, and contemporary implications.
International Terrorism and Social Threats of Artificial Intelligence May 2024 To counter these threats, researchers and technologists are developing new approaches to detecting and combating AI-generated propaganda and disinformation.
In Theodor Herzl's time some Jews controlled some press outlets like the "Neue Freie Presse" and antisemites controlled others, like those promoting the "Protocals of the Elders of Zion; has anyone tried to track how much was controlled by Jews and how much by antisemites? 02/24/2026
Yes, historians and researchers have analyzed the ownership and influence of the press in Europe during Theodor Herzl’s time (late 19th and early 20th century). These studies show that while Jewish journalists and editors were prominent in major liberal newspapers, the claim of widespread "control" was largely an antisemitic exaggeration, often used to fuel conspiracy theories like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Here is a breakdown of how this was tracked and the reality of the situation:
1. The "Jewish Press" in Central Europe
Context: In cities like Vienna and Berlin, liberal newspapers often employed journalists of Jewish origin (such as those at the Neue Freie Presse). These papers championed constitutionalism, free trade, and Enlightenment values.
The Neue Freie Presse: This was the most widely read newspaper in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. While it had Jewish editors (like Moriz Benedikt) and journalists (like Herzl), it was not a "Jewish paper" in a religious or national sense; it was a liberal, secular paper that often sought to assimilate, and ironically, was sometimes criticized by Zionists for its anti-Zionist, assimilationist stance.
The Reality: Research indicates that Jewish influence in the press was concentrated in specific, high-end liberal outlets, but it was not absolute control of the media landscape, which included thousands of conservative, clerical, and local publications.
2. The Antisemitic and Nationalist Press
La Libre Parole (France): Founded by Édouard Drumont in 1892, this was a highly influential, rabidly antisemitic newspaper that fueled the Dreyfus Affair.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: This forgery was first published in a Russian newspaper, Znamya (The Banner), in 1903. It was crafted by the Tsarist secret police to blame Russia's problems on a "Jewish conspiracy" to control the world’s press and governments.
Antisemitic Press Growth: The late 19th century saw a massive rise in specialized antisemitic, nationalist, and anti-liberal journals, particularly in Austria-Hungary, Germany, and France, often controlling local media narrative.
3. Tracking "Control" (Studies and Evidence)
Antisemitic Campaigns: Antisemites in the 1890s constantly published pamphlets attempting to "track" Jewish names in newspapers to argue they had a monopoly. Historians have shown these lists were often exaggerated, inaccurate, or included journalists who had converted to Christianity.
Modern Historical Analysis: Researchers, such as those documenting the history of the Neue Freie Presse, emphasize that the "control" was more about the influence of a few, highly visible papers in the capital city, rather than a broad, conspiratorial control of all media.
The "Mediocre Intellects" Claim: Herzl himself, writing in Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), acknowledged the stereotype of Jewish overrepresentation in the press, which he attributed not to a conspiracy, but to Jews entering liberal professions to escape exclusion from other fields. He argued this concentration made them targets.
4. Summary of Balance
The press in Herzl's time was highly polarized, and tracking this reveals a struggle for control:
Liberal/Jewish-staffed papers: Influential in cities, focusing on finance, culture, and politics, often viewed as "outsider" viewpoints.
Antisemitic/Nationalist papers: Focused on "national renewal," often blaming Jewish press members for social disruption and promoting the "world conspiracy" myth.
The Protocols were specifically designed to promote the idea that Jews controlled the press, even as antisemitic newspapers were growing rapidly and creating their own, very effective, media network. Complete article
Wikipedia: Neue Freie Presse
Wikipedia: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Jewish History - Antisemitism & 19th Century Rise of the Jews (15a of 20 sessions) 03/04/2021 "In fact the term antisemitism was first coined in 1879." Several sources indicate that at the time it was applied to European Jews, even though "Semites" were based on languages in the Middle East or Palestine area, which would include Arabs, but may not have included European Jews, some sources indicate the languages include Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew (Some argue that modern Hebrew is not the same as ancient Hebrew and many European Jews, including Herzl didn't speak Hebrew at all, with others speaking Yiddish.), and Tigrinya.
An Antisemitic Conspiracy: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 02/2/2026 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an antisemitic book used to promote hatred of Jews. It was first published in 1903. The Protocols contains conspiracy theories about alleged global Jewish power. It is the most widespread antisemitic publication of modern times.
Wikipedia: Antisemitism
THEODOR HERZL — VISIONARY OR ANTISEMITE? 01/23/2019 Herzl is everywhere in Israel. It would be difficult to find a town without a street named after him. He is memorialised in the names of boulevards, parks, squares, a city (Herzliya), a forest, a sprinkling of restaurants, a museum and even a national cemetery — Mount Herzl. His portrait hangs in the plenum hall of the Knesset. His birthday — Herzl Day — is observed as a national holiday. This is to be expected. After all, was he not the founder of the Zionist project and the Jewish state? .... There’s an amusing youtube video in which a journalist presents a number of Israeli students with a quote from Herzl and asks who they thought wrote it. Every one of them says Hitler. They are shocked to discover the truth; the Herzl they’d learned about in school could not have written such an antisemitic statement. This is the quote: AN EXCELLENT IDEA ENTERS MY MIND — TO ATTRACT OUTRIGHT ANTI-SEMITES AND MAKE THEM DESTROYERS OF JEWISH WEALTH. The journalist and peace activist Uri Avnery referred to Herzl’s writings as having, in places, ‘a strongly anti-Semitic odour’. Indeed they do. Try this for example (describing the attendees at a Berlin soiree in 1885): “Some thirty or forty ugly little Jews and Jewesses. No consoling sight.” Clearly Herzl didn’t like Jews much.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 10/28/2020
Protocols of the Elders of Zion Is Published The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the most widely distributed antisemitic publication in modern history, is first published in Znamya, a Russian newspaper. A plagiarized version of an 1864 French political satire by Maurice Joly, Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, Protocols most likely was written in Paris at the end of the 19th century. Protocols‘ dialogue comes from Joly’s work, which contains no references to Jews or Judaism, but is altered to represent the proceedings of a conference of worldwide Jewish leaders. The fictitious Jewish conference may have been an allusion to the First Zionist Congress in 1897.
Britannica: Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl Leaving the Synagogue in Basel on the Occasion of the Sixth Zionist Congress (1903)
Chapter 7.2: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence" 10/02/2024
Origins of Zionism: Herzl's “Jewish State,” 1896 February 14, 1896 Herzl, Theodor. “The Jewish Question.” The Jewish State. Trans. Sylvie D’Avigdor. 1896. N.p.: American Zionist Emergency Council, 1946. N. pag. Print.
Theodor Herzl and the birth of political Zionism
Yes, historians and researchers have analyzed the ownership and influence of the press in Europe during Theodor Herzl’s time (late 19th and early 20th century). These studies show that while Jewish journalists and editors were prominent in major liberal newspapers, the claim of widespread "control" was largely an antisemitic exaggeration, often used to fuel conspiracy theories like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Here is a breakdown of how this was tracked and the reality of the situation:
1. The "Jewish Press" in Central Europe
Context: In cities like Vienna and Berlin, liberal newspapers often employed journalists of Jewish origin (such as those at the Neue Freie Presse). These papers championed constitutionalism, free trade, and Enlightenment values.
The Neue Freie Presse: This was the most widely read newspaper in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. While it had Jewish editors (like Moriz Benedikt) and journalists (like Herzl), it was not a "Jewish paper" in a religious or national sense; it was a liberal, secular paper that often sought to assimilate, and ironically, was sometimes criticized by Zionists for its anti-Zionist, assimilationist stance.
The Reality: Research indicates that Jewish influence in the press was concentrated in specific, high-end liberal outlets, but it was not absolute control of the media landscape, which included thousands of conservative, clerical, and local publications.
2. The Antisemitic and Nationalist Press
La Libre Parole (France): Founded by Édouard Drumont in 1892, this was a highly influential, rabidly antisemitic newspaper that fueled the Dreyfus Affair.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: This forgery was first published in a Russian newspaper, Znamya (The Banner), in 1903. It was crafted by the Tsarist secret police to blame Russia's problems on a "Jewish conspiracy" to control the world’s press and governments.
Antisemitic Press Growth: The late 19th century saw a massive rise in specialized antisemitic, nationalist, and anti-liberal journals, particularly in Austria-Hungary, Germany, and France, often controlling local media narrative.
3. Tracking "Control" (Studies and Evidence)
Antisemitic Campaigns: Antisemites in the 1890s constantly published pamphlets attempting to "track" Jewish names in newspapers to argue they had a monopoly. Historians have shown these lists were often exaggerated, inaccurate, or included journalists who had converted to Christianity.
Modern Historical Analysis: Researchers, such as those documenting the history of the Neue Freie Presse, emphasize that the "control" was more about the influence of a few, highly visible papers in the capital city, rather than a broad, conspiratorial control of all media.
The "Mediocre Intellects" Claim: Herzl himself, writing in Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), acknowledged the stereotype of Jewish overrepresentation in the press, which he attributed not to a conspiracy, but to Jews entering liberal professions to escape exclusion from other fields. He argued this concentration made them targets.
4. Summary of Balance
The press in Herzl's time was highly polarized, and tracking this reveals a struggle for control:
Liberal/Jewish-staffed papers: Influential in cities, focusing on finance, culture, and politics, often viewed as "outsider" viewpoints.
Antisemitic/Nationalist papers: Focused on "national renewal," often blaming Jewish press members for social disruption and promoting the "world conspiracy" myth.
The Protocols were specifically designed to promote the idea that Jews controlled the press, even as antisemitic newspapers were growing rapidly and creating their own, very effective, media network. Complete article
Wikipedia: Neue Freie Presse
Wikipedia: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Jewish History - Antisemitism & 19th Century Rise of the Jews (15a of 20 sessions) 03/04/2021 "In fact the term antisemitism was first coined in 1879." Several sources indicate that at the time it was applied to European Jews, even though "Semites" were based on languages in the Middle East or Palestine area, which would include Arabs, but may not have included European Jews, some sources indicate the languages include Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew (Some argue that modern Hebrew is not the same as ancient Hebrew and many European Jews, including Herzl didn't speak Hebrew at all, with others speaking Yiddish.), and Tigrinya.
An Antisemitic Conspiracy: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 02/2/2026 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an antisemitic book used to promote hatred of Jews. It was first published in 1903. The Protocols contains conspiracy theories about alleged global Jewish power. It is the most widespread antisemitic publication of modern times.
Wikipedia: Antisemitism
THEODOR HERZL — VISIONARY OR ANTISEMITE? 01/23/2019 Herzl is everywhere in Israel. It would be difficult to find a town without a street named after him. He is memorialised in the names of boulevards, parks, squares, a city (Herzliya), a forest, a sprinkling of restaurants, a museum and even a national cemetery — Mount Herzl. His portrait hangs in the plenum hall of the Knesset. His birthday — Herzl Day — is observed as a national holiday. This is to be expected. After all, was he not the founder of the Zionist project and the Jewish state? .... There’s an amusing youtube video in which a journalist presents a number of Israeli students with a quote from Herzl and asks who they thought wrote it. Every one of them says Hitler. They are shocked to discover the truth; the Herzl they’d learned about in school could not have written such an antisemitic statement. This is the quote: AN EXCELLENT IDEA ENTERS MY MIND — TO ATTRACT OUTRIGHT ANTI-SEMITES AND MAKE THEM DESTROYERS OF JEWISH WEALTH. The journalist and peace activist Uri Avnery referred to Herzl’s writings as having, in places, ‘a strongly anti-Semitic odour’. Indeed they do. Try this for example (describing the attendees at a Berlin soiree in 1885): “Some thirty or forty ugly little Jews and Jewesses. No consoling sight.” Clearly Herzl didn’t like Jews much.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 10/28/2020
Protocols of the Elders of Zion Is Published The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the most widely distributed antisemitic publication in modern history, is first published in Znamya, a Russian newspaper. A plagiarized version of an 1864 French political satire by Maurice Joly, Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, Protocols most likely was written in Paris at the end of the 19th century. Protocols‘ dialogue comes from Joly’s work, which contains no references to Jews or Judaism, but is altered to represent the proceedings of a conference of worldwide Jewish leaders. The fictitious Jewish conference may have been an allusion to the First Zionist Congress in 1897.
Britannica: Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl Leaving the Synagogue in Basel on the Occasion of the Sixth Zionist Congress (1903)
Chapter 7.2: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence" 10/02/2024
Origins of Zionism: Herzl's “Jewish State,” 1896 February 14, 1896 Herzl, Theodor. “The Jewish Question.” The Jewish State. Trans. Sylvie D’Avigdor. 1896. N.p.: American Zionist Emergency Council, 1946. N. pag. Print.
Theodor Herzl and the birth of political Zionism
When Genocidal Governments Label their Victims As Terrorist! 02/28/2026
Labeling victims as "terrorists" is a key tactic used by governments engaging in or committing genocide to dehumanize their targets, justify mass violence, and shift blame for the destruction. This technique, often referred to as "reversing the victim and the perpetrator" allows state actors to frame their actions as legitimate defense or counter-terrorism.
Key Aspects of Labeling Victims as Terrorists
Dehumanization: Genocidal governments use dehumanizing language to equate target populations with "terrorists" "animals" or "diseases" which overrides normal human revulsion to murder.
Justification for Violence: By labeling victims as terrorists, the state provides a justification to kill, maim, and destroy, turning civilian areas into targets.
Targeting Human Rights Groups: Governments may designate human rights organizations, journalists, or civil society groups as "terrorist organizations" to silence opposition and hide evidence of abuse.
Manufacturing Consent: This label is often used to manipulate international and domestic opinion, securing support for military actions and hindering accountability.
Historical and Contemporary Context
Israel-Palestine Conflict: Scholars and human rights organizations have noted the use of the "terrorist" label by Israel to justify actions in Gaza against Palestinians, including journalists and human rights organizations.
The "Genocidal" Shift: The claim that a state is committing genocide while claiming to be the victim is a phenomenon discussed in legal and political analyses of the conflict.
Other Examples: Throughout history, regimes have used such labels, including during the Rwandan genocide (labeling Tutsis as "cockroaches" and rebels) and other instances of state-led violence.
The Role of International Law
Defining Terrorism: The lack of a universally agreed-upon, legally binding definition of terrorism allows states to selectively apply the term.
Preventing Accountability: By conflating victims with combatants or terrorists, states attempt to avoid international scrutiny and the legal obligations of the Genocide Convention.
Role of Media/Propaganda: Media, politicians, and official discourse are used to disseminate these labels to the public, fostering an environment where genocide becomes acceptable.
Labeling victims as terrorists is a critical component of the "Ten Stages of Genocide" specifically during the phases of classification, symbolization, and dehumanization. Complete article
Wikipedia: Terrorism Different legal systems and government agencies employ diverse definitions of terrorism, with governments showing hesitation in establishing a universally accepted, legally binding definition. Title 18 of the United States Code §2331, part of Chapter 113B, defines terrorism as acts that are intended to (1) intimidate or coerce civilians, (2) influence government policy by coercion, or (3) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.[34]
The Ten Stages of Genocide 02/2/2026 One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects, diseases [or terrorists].
How we define and use the word terrorism in the Israel‑Hamas war matters a lot 10/18/2023 Who gets to define terrorism? The concept of terrorism originated during the French Revolution during the Reign of Terror, a violent period where tens of thousands were executed by revolutionary governments. In response to state-led terror, groups calling themselves revolutionaries, but who were listed as terrorists, emerged, using similar tactics to resist their governments. Today, terrorism is often attributed to non-state actors, while states call their tactics counter-terrorism. Sometimes, those tactics can resemble terrorism, revealing how actors use terror to advance their goals. Throughout history, various groups, from communists and anarchists to religious fanatics and contemporary animal rights activists, have employed controversial, even terrorist, methods to achieve their goals. Terrorism persists as a political tool of last resort when other methods of conflict resolution seem ineffective and terrorism appears like their only option. Labeling an individual or group as a terrorist can have devastating consequences for others who might support the associated cause, but not necessarily endorse violence. For example, the BBC recently faced criticism for characterizing pro-Palestinian demonstrations as “backing” Hamas.
Ten Stages of Genocide Graphic Novels 01/20/2026 Dehumanization: Genocidal Terror, Unholy War. Stage Definition: One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with insects, animals, diseases, invaders, criminals, terrorists, infidels, or traitors. They are sub human. Dehumanization overcomes the normal human revulsion to murder. Genocidal Terror: Radical religious groups seek to create a world under their religious domination. They use force and terror to achieve these goals. Genocidal terrorism intends large scale destruction, mass murder, and the targeting of specific victim groups. No matter how few victims, if genocidal intent is present, it is genocide under provisions of the Genocide Convention.
Hamas’ October 7th Genocide: Legal Analysis and the Weaponisation of Reverse Accusations – A Study in Modern Genocide Recognition and Denial 08/8/2025 This eliminationist antisemitism is the defining feature of the Hamas ideology. It is shared by a wide range of Islamist groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) and Khomeinist Iran.Footnote4 The aftermath of the genocide of October 7th has seen the worst wave of anti-Semitic violence against Diaspora Jewish communities since the end of the Second World War.Footnote5 Islamic groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS have called on their followers worldwide to follow the Hamas example and attack Jews.Footnote6 The use of the label ‘genocide’ may prompt a systematic examination of Islamist ideology and the threat that it poses to Jews, among others. It would also undermine certain defensive arguments made in favour of Hamas – namely, that it is acting in self-defence against Israeli aggression and is a legitimate response to occupation. Hamas, although a Palestinian nationalist movement, has its origins in the virulently anti-Zionist and antisemitic Muslim Brotherhood movement founded in Egypt in the 1920s. [This study accuses defenders of Palestinians of doing what the Zionists and authors of this study are doing themselves; check the history yourself and decide which side is right.]
Outcry as Israel labels Palestinian rights groups ‘terrorists’ 10/22/2021 The designation effectively outlaws the activities of leading six groups, subjecting their members to raids and arrest. Israel has issued a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as “terrorist organisations”, in a move swiftly condemned by the Palestinian Authority, rights groups, and the United Nations. The Israeli Ministry of Defence claimed on Friday that the groups were linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a left-wing movement with a political party, as well as an armed wing that has carried out deadly attacks against Israelis.
Israel using ‘terrorist’ label to justify killing Al Jazeera Gaza journalists, says Ian Williams 08/12/2025
THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE (1948) According to the Convention, genocide is a crime that can take place both in time of war as well as in time of peace. The definition contained in Article II of the Convention describes genocide as a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part.
NGO Monitor: Amnesty’s Genocide Inversion: A Preliminary Analysis 12/03/2024 [The NGO Monitor is an obvious Zionist propaganda organization; use your own judgement; if you agree this looks like propaganda then it's part of the effort to demonize victims to justify genocide.] Rather, these structures were targeted because Hamas had deliberately converted them into military installations – not because of “genocidal intent.” If Amnesty’s “genocidal intent” accusation was taken seriously, this would give blanket immunity to terrorist organizations operating under the cover of civilian populations and prevent the application of siege strategies in situations of asymmetric warfare. If attacking areas where civilians are present is proof of “genocidal intent,” and facilitating their evacuation is “calculated to bring about physical destruction,” then the ensuing Catch-22 prevents Israel – or any military force – from effectively combating terrorists who have embedded themselves in urban areas or amongst civilians. Worse, by falsely labeling such responses as “genocidal,” Amnesty’s position encourages terrorist organizations to continue to adopt these tactics, ultimately causing more harm to civilians.
Manufacturing genocide with the label of terrorism 10/20/2025 A genuine documentation of events on the ground would almost certainly reveal the intentionality behind Israel’s genocide, rendering an even further lack of popular consent, especially in America, Israel’s most important ally in the world. Thus, they must declare that a journalist is a terrorist after they are killed, attempting to make that journalists’ reporting tainted in the minds of many. Despite all of these flagrant killings, neither former President Joe Biden nor current Trump bothered to stop supporting Israel with military aid. Donald Trump may represent a continuation of support for Israel, but support for genocide was bipartisan, proving America’s commitment to supporting said genocide. The way in which Israel and America wield charges of terrorism is institutional, and not the blame of one singular person.
Terrorism and Genocide 2015
ISRAEL: HAS THE VICTIM OF GENOCIDE BECOME THE PERPETRATOR OF THE SAME CRIME? 01/31/2024
New resolution says Israel's actions meet genocide definition | DW News 09/01/2025
Incitement, genocide, genocidal terror, and the upstream role of indoctrination: can epidemiologic models predict and prevent? 10/22/2018 Blaming the target for the perpetrators personal misfortunes or those of his/her group and/or provoking feelings of fear towards a specific group.
Labeling victims as "terrorists" is a key tactic used by governments engaging in or committing genocide to dehumanize their targets, justify mass violence, and shift blame for the destruction. This technique, often referred to as "reversing the victim and the perpetrator" allows state actors to frame their actions as legitimate defense or counter-terrorism.
Key Aspects of Labeling Victims as Terrorists
Dehumanization: Genocidal governments use dehumanizing language to equate target populations with "terrorists" "animals" or "diseases" which overrides normal human revulsion to murder.
Justification for Violence: By labeling victims as terrorists, the state provides a justification to kill, maim, and destroy, turning civilian areas into targets.
Targeting Human Rights Groups: Governments may designate human rights organizations, journalists, or civil society groups as "terrorist organizations" to silence opposition and hide evidence of abuse.
Manufacturing Consent: This label is often used to manipulate international and domestic opinion, securing support for military actions and hindering accountability.
Historical and Contemporary Context
Israel-Palestine Conflict: Scholars and human rights organizations have noted the use of the "terrorist" label by Israel to justify actions in Gaza against Palestinians, including journalists and human rights organizations.
The "Genocidal" Shift: The claim that a state is committing genocide while claiming to be the victim is a phenomenon discussed in legal and political analyses of the conflict.
Other Examples: Throughout history, regimes have used such labels, including during the Rwandan genocide (labeling Tutsis as "cockroaches" and rebels) and other instances of state-led violence.
The Role of International Law
Defining Terrorism: The lack of a universally agreed-upon, legally binding definition of terrorism allows states to selectively apply the term.
Preventing Accountability: By conflating victims with combatants or terrorists, states attempt to avoid international scrutiny and the legal obligations of the Genocide Convention.
Role of Media/Propaganda: Media, politicians, and official discourse are used to disseminate these labels to the public, fostering an environment where genocide becomes acceptable.
Labeling victims as terrorists is a critical component of the "Ten Stages of Genocide" specifically during the phases of classification, symbolization, and dehumanization. Complete article
Wikipedia: Terrorism Different legal systems and government agencies employ diverse definitions of terrorism, with governments showing hesitation in establishing a universally accepted, legally binding definition. Title 18 of the United States Code §2331, part of Chapter 113B, defines terrorism as acts that are intended to (1) intimidate or coerce civilians, (2) influence government policy by coercion, or (3) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.[34]
The Ten Stages of Genocide 02/2/2026 One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects, diseases [or terrorists].
How we define and use the word terrorism in the Israel‑Hamas war matters a lot 10/18/2023 Who gets to define terrorism? The concept of terrorism originated during the French Revolution during the Reign of Terror, a violent period where tens of thousands were executed by revolutionary governments. In response to state-led terror, groups calling themselves revolutionaries, but who were listed as terrorists, emerged, using similar tactics to resist their governments. Today, terrorism is often attributed to non-state actors, while states call their tactics counter-terrorism. Sometimes, those tactics can resemble terrorism, revealing how actors use terror to advance their goals. Throughout history, various groups, from communists and anarchists to religious fanatics and contemporary animal rights activists, have employed controversial, even terrorist, methods to achieve their goals. Terrorism persists as a political tool of last resort when other methods of conflict resolution seem ineffective and terrorism appears like their only option. Labeling an individual or group as a terrorist can have devastating consequences for others who might support the associated cause, but not necessarily endorse violence. For example, the BBC recently faced criticism for characterizing pro-Palestinian demonstrations as “backing” Hamas.
Ten Stages of Genocide Graphic Novels 01/20/2026 Dehumanization: Genocidal Terror, Unholy War. Stage Definition: One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with insects, animals, diseases, invaders, criminals, terrorists, infidels, or traitors. They are sub human. Dehumanization overcomes the normal human revulsion to murder. Genocidal Terror: Radical religious groups seek to create a world under their religious domination. They use force and terror to achieve these goals. Genocidal terrorism intends large scale destruction, mass murder, and the targeting of specific victim groups. No matter how few victims, if genocidal intent is present, it is genocide under provisions of the Genocide Convention.
Hamas’ October 7th Genocide: Legal Analysis and the Weaponisation of Reverse Accusations – A Study in Modern Genocide Recognition and Denial 08/8/2025 This eliminationist antisemitism is the defining feature of the Hamas ideology. It is shared by a wide range of Islamist groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) and Khomeinist Iran.Footnote4 The aftermath of the genocide of October 7th has seen the worst wave of anti-Semitic violence against Diaspora Jewish communities since the end of the Second World War.Footnote5 Islamic groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS have called on their followers worldwide to follow the Hamas example and attack Jews.Footnote6 The use of the label ‘genocide’ may prompt a systematic examination of Islamist ideology and the threat that it poses to Jews, among others. It would also undermine certain defensive arguments made in favour of Hamas – namely, that it is acting in self-defence against Israeli aggression and is a legitimate response to occupation. Hamas, although a Palestinian nationalist movement, has its origins in the virulently anti-Zionist and antisemitic Muslim Brotherhood movement founded in Egypt in the 1920s. [This study accuses defenders of Palestinians of doing what the Zionists and authors of this study are doing themselves; check the history yourself and decide which side is right.]
Outcry as Israel labels Palestinian rights groups ‘terrorists’ 10/22/2021 The designation effectively outlaws the activities of leading six groups, subjecting their members to raids and arrest. Israel has issued a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as “terrorist organisations”, in a move swiftly condemned by the Palestinian Authority, rights groups, and the United Nations. The Israeli Ministry of Defence claimed on Friday that the groups were linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a left-wing movement with a political party, as well as an armed wing that has carried out deadly attacks against Israelis.
Israel using ‘terrorist’ label to justify killing Al Jazeera Gaza journalists, says Ian Williams 08/12/2025
THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE (1948) According to the Convention, genocide is a crime that can take place both in time of war as well as in time of peace. The definition contained in Article II of the Convention describes genocide as a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part.
NGO Monitor: Amnesty’s Genocide Inversion: A Preliminary Analysis 12/03/2024 [The NGO Monitor is an obvious Zionist propaganda organization; use your own judgement; if you agree this looks like propaganda then it's part of the effort to demonize victims to justify genocide.] Rather, these structures were targeted because Hamas had deliberately converted them into military installations – not because of “genocidal intent.” If Amnesty’s “genocidal intent” accusation was taken seriously, this would give blanket immunity to terrorist organizations operating under the cover of civilian populations and prevent the application of siege strategies in situations of asymmetric warfare. If attacking areas where civilians are present is proof of “genocidal intent,” and facilitating their evacuation is “calculated to bring about physical destruction,” then the ensuing Catch-22 prevents Israel – or any military force – from effectively combating terrorists who have embedded themselves in urban areas or amongst civilians. Worse, by falsely labeling such responses as “genocidal,” Amnesty’s position encourages terrorist organizations to continue to adopt these tactics, ultimately causing more harm to civilians.
Manufacturing genocide with the label of terrorism 10/20/2025 A genuine documentation of events on the ground would almost certainly reveal the intentionality behind Israel’s genocide, rendering an even further lack of popular consent, especially in America, Israel’s most important ally in the world. Thus, they must declare that a journalist is a terrorist after they are killed, attempting to make that journalists’ reporting tainted in the minds of many. Despite all of these flagrant killings, neither former President Joe Biden nor current Trump bothered to stop supporting Israel with military aid. Donald Trump may represent a continuation of support for Israel, but support for genocide was bipartisan, proving America’s commitment to supporting said genocide. The way in which Israel and America wield charges of terrorism is institutional, and not the blame of one singular person.
Terrorism and Genocide 2015
ISRAEL: HAS THE VICTIM OF GENOCIDE BECOME THE PERPETRATOR OF THE SAME CRIME? 01/31/2024
New resolution says Israel's actions meet genocide definition | DW News 09/01/2025
Incitement, genocide, genocidal terror, and the upstream role of indoctrination: can epidemiologic models predict and prevent? 10/22/2018 Blaming the target for the perpetrators personal misfortunes or those of his/her group and/or provoking feelings of fear towards a specific group.
Has the United States or other countries that supported the slave trade ever made reparations to the slaves? Have they ever made reparations to slave owners for loss of "property" when slaves were freed? 02/17/2026
Yes, governments have paid substantial reparations to slave owners for the loss of "property" when slavery was abolished, but rarely to the enslaved people themselves. In 1833, Britain paid £20 million (approx. £300 billion today) to slave owners. In 1862, the U.S. paid up to $300 per person to loyal slaveholders in Washington, D.C..
Reparations to Slave Owners
British Government (1833): Upon abolishing slavery, the British government paid £20 million to compensate owners for the loss of their human property.
United States (1862): The District of Columbia Emancipation Act paid loyal Union slaveowners up to $300 for each enslaved person freed.
Haiti (1825): France forced Haiti to pay 150 million francs (later reduced) to compensate French slave owners for lost "property" and land, a debt Haiti paid until 1947.
Reparations to Enslaved People
Federal Level: No federal reparations have been paid to formerly enslaved people or their descendants in the United States.
Local Level: Some U.S. cities, such as Evanston, Illinois, have recently launched local, limited reparation programs (e.g., housing grants) to address historical injustices.
Initial Action: In 1865, Special Field Orders No. 15 (popularly known as "forty acres and a mule") aimed to provide land to freed families, but was quickly reversed by President Andrew Johnson. Complete article
There Was a Time Reparations Were Actually Paid Out – Just Not to Formerly Enslaved People 03/05/2021 Thomas Craemer The payments went to former slave owners and their descendants, not the enslaved or their legal heirs. ...... A prominent example is the so-called “Haitian Independence Debt” that saddled revolutionary Haiti with reparation payments to former slave owners in France.
When Slaveowners Got Reparations 04/16/2019 On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill emancipating enslaved people in Washington, the end of a long struggle. But to ease slaveowners’ pain, the District of Columbia Emancipation Act paid those loyal to the Union up to $300 for every enslaved person freed. That’s right, slaveowners got reparations. Enslaved African-Americans got nothing for their generations of stolen bodies, snatched children and expropriated labor other than their mere release from legal bondage.
When Slaveowners Got Reparations 04/17/2019
Wikipedia: Reparations for slavery in the United States Reparations for slavery is the application of the concept of reparations to victims of slavery or their descendants. There are concepts for reparations in legal philosophy and reparations in transitional justice. In the US, reparations for slavery have been both given by legal ruling in court and/or given voluntarily (without court rulings) by individuals and institutions.[1][2] The first recorded case of reparations for slavery in the United States was to former slave Belinda Royall in 1783, in the form of a pension, and since then reparations continue to be proposed. To the present day, no federal reparations bills have been passed.[3] The 1865 Special Field Orders No. 15 ("Forty acres and a mule") is the most well known attempt to help newly freed slaves integrate into society and accumulate wealth.[4] However, President Andrew Johnson reversed this order, giving the land back to its former Confederate owners.
There was a time reparations were actually paid out – just not to formerly enslaved people 02/26/2021 Thomas Craemer
First, apologies. Next, payouts? How reparations address history of slavery in US 02/29/2024
PBS Tag: Reparations
What to know about a conservative lawsuit against reparations in Evanston, Illinois 06/16/2024
Yes, governments have paid substantial reparations to slave owners for the loss of "property" when slavery was abolished, but rarely to the enslaved people themselves. In 1833, Britain paid £20 million (approx. £300 billion today) to slave owners. In 1862, the U.S. paid up to $300 per person to loyal slaveholders in Washington, D.C..
Reparations to Slave Owners
British Government (1833): Upon abolishing slavery, the British government paid £20 million to compensate owners for the loss of their human property.
United States (1862): The District of Columbia Emancipation Act paid loyal Union slaveowners up to $300 for each enslaved person freed.
Haiti (1825): France forced Haiti to pay 150 million francs (later reduced) to compensate French slave owners for lost "property" and land, a debt Haiti paid until 1947.
Reparations to Enslaved People
Federal Level: No federal reparations have been paid to formerly enslaved people or their descendants in the United States.
Local Level: Some U.S. cities, such as Evanston, Illinois, have recently launched local, limited reparation programs (e.g., housing grants) to address historical injustices.
Initial Action: In 1865, Special Field Orders No. 15 (popularly known as "forty acres and a mule") aimed to provide land to freed families, but was quickly reversed by President Andrew Johnson. Complete article
There Was a Time Reparations Were Actually Paid Out – Just Not to Formerly Enslaved People 03/05/2021 Thomas Craemer The payments went to former slave owners and their descendants, not the enslaved or their legal heirs. ...... A prominent example is the so-called “Haitian Independence Debt” that saddled revolutionary Haiti with reparation payments to former slave owners in France.
When Slaveowners Got Reparations 04/16/2019 On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill emancipating enslaved people in Washington, the end of a long struggle. But to ease slaveowners’ pain, the District of Columbia Emancipation Act paid those loyal to the Union up to $300 for every enslaved person freed. That’s right, slaveowners got reparations. Enslaved African-Americans got nothing for their generations of stolen bodies, snatched children and expropriated labor other than their mere release from legal bondage.
When Slaveowners Got Reparations 04/17/2019
Wikipedia: Reparations for slavery in the United States Reparations for slavery is the application of the concept of reparations to victims of slavery or their descendants. There are concepts for reparations in legal philosophy and reparations in transitional justice. In the US, reparations for slavery have been both given by legal ruling in court and/or given voluntarily (without court rulings) by individuals and institutions.[1][2] The first recorded case of reparations for slavery in the United States was to former slave Belinda Royall in 1783, in the form of a pension, and since then reparations continue to be proposed. To the present day, no federal reparations bills have been passed.[3] The 1865 Special Field Orders No. 15 ("Forty acres and a mule") is the most well known attempt to help newly freed slaves integrate into society and accumulate wealth.[4] However, President Andrew Johnson reversed this order, giving the land back to its former Confederate owners.
There was a time reparations were actually paid out – just not to formerly enslaved people 02/26/2021 Thomas Craemer
First, apologies. Next, payouts? How reparations address history of slavery in US 02/29/2024
PBS Tag: Reparations
What to know about a conservative lawsuit against reparations in Evanston, Illinois 06/16/2024
Has the United States ever paid reparations to Native Americans for stealing their land? 02/17/2026
Yes, the U.S. has provided various forms of compensation to Native American tribes for land, through both monetary settlements and land returns, though these efforts are generally described as land claim settlements and not explicitly "reparations" by the U.S. government itself. Many tribes and individuals view the compensation as inadequate for the historical losses.
Key initiatives and examples include:
The Indian Claims Commission: Established in 1946, this commission was a tribunal for tribes to present claims for land lost through unfulfilled treaties or sold at unconscionably low prices. By the time it dissolved in 1978, it had awarded approximately $1.3 billion to 176 tribes.
Monetary Compensation: These funds were often placed in trust accounts managed by the U.S. government, with Native Americans having limited control over the money for decades. The payments averaged out to less than $1,000 per person and offered little overall benefit to the indigenous population.
Land Returns: In some cases, land has been returned to tribal ownership. Examples include:
Returning 48,000 acres around Blue Lake, New Mexico, to the Taos Pueblo.
Restoring 185,000 acres near Grand Canyon National Park to the Havasupai Reservation.
The Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations, which between 2010 and 2022 consolidated and restored nearly 3 million acres to tribal trust ownership through voluntary sales from individual owners.
Major Lawsuit Settlements: Recent years have seen large settlements resolving specific lawsuits over the U.S. government's mismanagement of tribal lands and trust funds:
The landmark Cobell v. Salazar class-action suit was settled in 2009 for $3.4 billion, which compensated over 300,000 individual Native Americans for lost income from land leases and other assets.
In 2016, the Obama administration announced an additional $492 million in settlements with 17 tribes for similar mismanagement claims.
While significant funds and some land have been transferred, many Native Americans argue that these settlements do not fully address the extensive loss of ancestral lands, cultural identity, and sovereignty, and that the return of land, rather than cash, is the most meaningful form of restitution. The U.S. issued a formal apology for its mistreatment of Native Peoples in 2009, tucked into a defense spending bill. Complete article
America Has Tried Reparations Before. Here Is How It Went. 06/19/2019 With a renewed focus on reparations for slavery, what lessons can be drawn from payments to victims of other historical injustices in America? .... Native Americans did not get full control of money awarded to them. .... After World War II, Congress created the Indian Claims Commission to pay compensation to any federally recognized tribe for land that had been seized by the United States. ..... “They did not make those awards, whether it was $200 million, $20 million or $20,000 — they held that money in trust accounts,” she said.
The Thorny History of Reparations in the United States 05/28/2025 In 1946, Congress created the Indian Claims Commission, a body designed to hear historic grievances and compensate tribes for lost territories. It commissioned extensive historical research and ended up awarding about $1.3 billion to 176 tribes and bands. The money was largely given to groups, which then distributed the money among their members. For some tribes whose members didn’t live on a reservation, note historians Michael Lieder and Jake Page, the money was distributed per capita. For those who did live on reservations, the money was often earmarked for tribal projects. However, the actual funds only averaged out to about $1,000 per person of Native American ancestry, and most of the money was put in trust accounts held by the United States government, which has been accused of mismanagement over the years. “Gambling has had a more positive impact on the quality of life on reservations than did the Indian Claims Commission Act,” Lieder and Page write. And it took decades for a formal apology. Tucked inside a defense spending bill, the United States apologized for what it characterized as the “many instances of violence, maltreatment, and neglect inflicted on Native Peoples by citizens of the United States” in 2009.
Have there been any reparations paid to Native American nations for what was done to them during American expansion to the West? 2014 Not reparations, per se, but tribes have sued the federal government for their treaty rights and moneys owed to them. The Indian Land Claims Commission was established in 1946 to "any Indian tribe, band, or other identifiable group of American Indians" and lasted until 1978. The ILCC was a tribunal that heard cases from Native Americans who had lost lands due to treaties not being upheld. Recently Cobell v. Salazar, a class action lawsuit with 500,000 Native plaintiffs, was settled in favor of the plaintiffs over moneys held in trust by the US government (for land leases, etc.) not distributed to the Indians. In the 2009 settlement of the case, $1.4 billion was awarded to the plaintiffs and $2 billion went to purchase lands to be put back in trust for the tribes. This is not money awarded to tribes and individuals because the US feels sorry for anything it did, it's pennies on the dollar of lease and other moneys owed to Natives for decades/a century that the US simply didn't pay out.
Three Million Acres of Land Returned to Tribes Through Interior Department’s Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations 12/04/2023 WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced the conclusion of the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations, a decade-long effort to consolidate and return land to Tribal ownership. Over the course of the program, nearly 3 million acres in 15 states were consolidated and restored to Tribal trust ownership and $1.69 billion was paid to more than 123,000 interested individuals. Appropriated funding for the Buy-Back Program ended in November 2022, pursuant to the Settlement and Claims Resolution Act of 2010. As part of the Program’s conclusion, the Department released a report outlining the history, best practices and lessons learned through its implementation. The report emphasizes the need to continue land consolidation efforts and identifies policies and opportunities that could be considered to complement a robust voluntary sales effort. “Assimilation policies not only attempted to break apart Indigenous families, devastate ecosystems and eliminate Native languages, they also worked to weaken land claims and Tribal land ownership. The checkboard system of land ownership on many reservations historically left communities and landowners unable to make basic decisions about their homelands,” said Secretary Deb Haaland.
U.S. Government To Pay $492 Million To 17 American Indian Tribes 09/27/2016
Native American Trust Fund: Massive Mismanagement 11/21/2016 After a trial in June 2008, Judge James Robertson ordered that the government is responsible for about $455 million of missing Native American money. The Native American plaintiffs expressed disappointment at the verdict, which holds the government accountable for only a fraction of the amount descendants claim to be owed, and have not yet said whether they will appeal. In early December 2009, the government offered and the plaintiffs accepted a settlement in this 13-year-old case. The settlement provides $1.4 billion to be shared among the plaintiffs (yielding just $1000 per plaintiff). The federal government commits another $2 billion to buy up small shares of scattered properties from their current owners. The settlement includes the creation of a “$60 million federal Indian Education Scholarship fund to improve access to higher education for Indian youth, and … a commitment by the federal government to appoint a commission that will oversee and monitor specific improvements in the Department’s accounting for and management of individual Indian trust accounts and trust assets, going forward. In late 2010, the House and Senate both approved the Cobell lawsuit settlement.
Land return for tribal restitution 11/01/2023 Several examples of land return to tribal nations in the U.S. have been associated with increased tribal sovereignty, improved economic conditions, and community benefits for tribal nations. In New Mexico, the Zuni tribe received land reparations that included 25,000 acres of land, $25 million in monetary compensation for lost land, and another $25 million for damages to the reservation’s land caused by governmental acts of omission that led to erosion and the loss of minerals, timber, and water. This settlement improved economic conditions for the Zuni tribe, created a permanent trust to support a sustainable resource development plan, and a permanent easement to secure Zuni religious freedom and provide access to the traditional route for their sacred pilgrimages20. Under the Indian Claims Commission, land was restored to increase sovereignty for several tribes. For example, 48,000 acres in Blue Lake, New Mexico were returned to the Taos Pueblo6, 9. In Arizona, 185,000 acres of land around Grand Canyon National Park was returned to the Havasupai Reservation9.
Government Settles Indian Trust Fund Suit 12/14/2009 After 13 years of litigation and 122 years of waiting, the United States government is finally paying Native Americans for profits earned on 54 million acres of Native land held “in trust” by the federal government since 1887. The $3.4 billion settlement of the Cobell v. Salazar class-action suit was announced December 8th by Blackfeet Nation banker Eloise Cobell, Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, and Attorney General Eric Holder. The settlement will compensate more than 300,000 Indian landholders in western states whose families have received inadequate or no payments on the grazing, oil, gas and recreational leases the federal government has held in trust, or administered on their behalf through “individual Indian money (IIM) accounts” for the past 122 years since the Dawes Act was approved by Congress. The Dawes Act of 1887 was intended to break up reservations into small individually owned parcels of land, which would be managed by the federal government. Profits from mining, gas, ranching, timber, and other economic activities on the land would be collected by the government and disbursed proportionally to the Native land owners and their families.
Native American Reparations | History, Purpose & Debates
Yes, the U.S. has provided various forms of compensation to Native American tribes for land, through both monetary settlements and land returns, though these efforts are generally described as land claim settlements and not explicitly "reparations" by the U.S. government itself. Many tribes and individuals view the compensation as inadequate for the historical losses.
Key initiatives and examples include:
The Indian Claims Commission: Established in 1946, this commission was a tribunal for tribes to present claims for land lost through unfulfilled treaties or sold at unconscionably low prices. By the time it dissolved in 1978, it had awarded approximately $1.3 billion to 176 tribes.
Monetary Compensation: These funds were often placed in trust accounts managed by the U.S. government, with Native Americans having limited control over the money for decades. The payments averaged out to less than $1,000 per person and offered little overall benefit to the indigenous population.
Land Returns: In some cases, land has been returned to tribal ownership. Examples include:
Returning 48,000 acres around Blue Lake, New Mexico, to the Taos Pueblo.
Restoring 185,000 acres near Grand Canyon National Park to the Havasupai Reservation.
The Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations, which between 2010 and 2022 consolidated and restored nearly 3 million acres to tribal trust ownership through voluntary sales from individual owners.
Major Lawsuit Settlements: Recent years have seen large settlements resolving specific lawsuits over the U.S. government's mismanagement of tribal lands and trust funds:
The landmark Cobell v. Salazar class-action suit was settled in 2009 for $3.4 billion, which compensated over 300,000 individual Native Americans for lost income from land leases and other assets.
In 2016, the Obama administration announced an additional $492 million in settlements with 17 tribes for similar mismanagement claims.
While significant funds and some land have been transferred, many Native Americans argue that these settlements do not fully address the extensive loss of ancestral lands, cultural identity, and sovereignty, and that the return of land, rather than cash, is the most meaningful form of restitution. The U.S. issued a formal apology for its mistreatment of Native Peoples in 2009, tucked into a defense spending bill. Complete article
America Has Tried Reparations Before. Here Is How It Went. 06/19/2019 With a renewed focus on reparations for slavery, what lessons can be drawn from payments to victims of other historical injustices in America? .... Native Americans did not get full control of money awarded to them. .... After World War II, Congress created the Indian Claims Commission to pay compensation to any federally recognized tribe for land that had been seized by the United States. ..... “They did not make those awards, whether it was $200 million, $20 million or $20,000 — they held that money in trust accounts,” she said.
The Thorny History of Reparations in the United States 05/28/2025 In 1946, Congress created the Indian Claims Commission, a body designed to hear historic grievances and compensate tribes for lost territories. It commissioned extensive historical research and ended up awarding about $1.3 billion to 176 tribes and bands. The money was largely given to groups, which then distributed the money among their members. For some tribes whose members didn’t live on a reservation, note historians Michael Lieder and Jake Page, the money was distributed per capita. For those who did live on reservations, the money was often earmarked for tribal projects. However, the actual funds only averaged out to about $1,000 per person of Native American ancestry, and most of the money was put in trust accounts held by the United States government, which has been accused of mismanagement over the years. “Gambling has had a more positive impact on the quality of life on reservations than did the Indian Claims Commission Act,” Lieder and Page write. And it took decades for a formal apology. Tucked inside a defense spending bill, the United States apologized for what it characterized as the “many instances of violence, maltreatment, and neglect inflicted on Native Peoples by citizens of the United States” in 2009.
Have there been any reparations paid to Native American nations for what was done to them during American expansion to the West? 2014 Not reparations, per se, but tribes have sued the federal government for their treaty rights and moneys owed to them. The Indian Land Claims Commission was established in 1946 to "any Indian tribe, band, or other identifiable group of American Indians" and lasted until 1978. The ILCC was a tribunal that heard cases from Native Americans who had lost lands due to treaties not being upheld. Recently Cobell v. Salazar, a class action lawsuit with 500,000 Native plaintiffs, was settled in favor of the plaintiffs over moneys held in trust by the US government (for land leases, etc.) not distributed to the Indians. In the 2009 settlement of the case, $1.4 billion was awarded to the plaintiffs and $2 billion went to purchase lands to be put back in trust for the tribes. This is not money awarded to tribes and individuals because the US feels sorry for anything it did, it's pennies on the dollar of lease and other moneys owed to Natives for decades/a century that the US simply didn't pay out.
Three Million Acres of Land Returned to Tribes Through Interior Department’s Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations 12/04/2023 WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced the conclusion of the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations, a decade-long effort to consolidate and return land to Tribal ownership. Over the course of the program, nearly 3 million acres in 15 states were consolidated and restored to Tribal trust ownership and $1.69 billion was paid to more than 123,000 interested individuals. Appropriated funding for the Buy-Back Program ended in November 2022, pursuant to the Settlement and Claims Resolution Act of 2010. As part of the Program’s conclusion, the Department released a report outlining the history, best practices and lessons learned through its implementation. The report emphasizes the need to continue land consolidation efforts and identifies policies and opportunities that could be considered to complement a robust voluntary sales effort. “Assimilation policies not only attempted to break apart Indigenous families, devastate ecosystems and eliminate Native languages, they also worked to weaken land claims and Tribal land ownership. The checkboard system of land ownership on many reservations historically left communities and landowners unable to make basic decisions about their homelands,” said Secretary Deb Haaland.
U.S. Government To Pay $492 Million To 17 American Indian Tribes 09/27/2016
Native American Trust Fund: Massive Mismanagement 11/21/2016 After a trial in June 2008, Judge James Robertson ordered that the government is responsible for about $455 million of missing Native American money. The Native American plaintiffs expressed disappointment at the verdict, which holds the government accountable for only a fraction of the amount descendants claim to be owed, and have not yet said whether they will appeal. In early December 2009, the government offered and the plaintiffs accepted a settlement in this 13-year-old case. The settlement provides $1.4 billion to be shared among the plaintiffs (yielding just $1000 per plaintiff). The federal government commits another $2 billion to buy up small shares of scattered properties from their current owners. The settlement includes the creation of a “$60 million federal Indian Education Scholarship fund to improve access to higher education for Indian youth, and … a commitment by the federal government to appoint a commission that will oversee and monitor specific improvements in the Department’s accounting for and management of individual Indian trust accounts and trust assets, going forward. In late 2010, the House and Senate both approved the Cobell lawsuit settlement.
Land return for tribal restitution 11/01/2023 Several examples of land return to tribal nations in the U.S. have been associated with increased tribal sovereignty, improved economic conditions, and community benefits for tribal nations. In New Mexico, the Zuni tribe received land reparations that included 25,000 acres of land, $25 million in monetary compensation for lost land, and another $25 million for damages to the reservation’s land caused by governmental acts of omission that led to erosion and the loss of minerals, timber, and water. This settlement improved economic conditions for the Zuni tribe, created a permanent trust to support a sustainable resource development plan, and a permanent easement to secure Zuni religious freedom and provide access to the traditional route for their sacred pilgrimages20. Under the Indian Claims Commission, land was restored to increase sovereignty for several tribes. For example, 48,000 acres in Blue Lake, New Mexico were returned to the Taos Pueblo6, 9. In Arizona, 185,000 acres of land around Grand Canyon National Park was returned to the Havasupai Reservation9.
Government Settles Indian Trust Fund Suit 12/14/2009 After 13 years of litigation and 122 years of waiting, the United States government is finally paying Native Americans for profits earned on 54 million acres of Native land held “in trust” by the federal government since 1887. The $3.4 billion settlement of the Cobell v. Salazar class-action suit was announced December 8th by Blackfeet Nation banker Eloise Cobell, Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, and Attorney General Eric Holder. The settlement will compensate more than 300,000 Indian landholders in western states whose families have received inadequate or no payments on the grazing, oil, gas and recreational leases the federal government has held in trust, or administered on their behalf through “individual Indian money (IIM) accounts” for the past 122 years since the Dawes Act was approved by Congress. The Dawes Act of 1887 was intended to break up reservations into small individually owned parcels of land, which would be managed by the federal government. Profits from mining, gas, ranching, timber, and other economic activities on the land would be collected by the government and disbursed proportionally to the Native land owners and their families.
Native American Reparations | History, Purpose & Debates
Has the United States ever paid reparations to Vietnam for invading their land, killing millions, and causing massive polution during the Vietnam War? 02/18/2026
The United States has never paid formal, direct reparations to Vietnam for damages, deaths, or environmental destruction (such as Agent Orange) caused during the Vietnam War. Instead, in 1993, Vietnam was forced to assume the debt of the former South Vietnamese government to normalize trade relations.
Key details regarding this issue include:
No Official Reparations: Despite the massive devastation, the U.S. has not officially compensated Vietnam for war damages.
Assumed Debt: Following the war, Vietnam was required to pay $145 million in debts inherited from the South Vietnamese government.
Aid, Not Reparations: The U.S. has provided aid to address war legacies, such as funding for cleaning up dioxin (Agent Orange) residue and assisting people with disabilities, but this is not classified as reparations.
Voluntary Assistance: USAID has provided over $94 million since 2011 for health-related services specifically for victims of Agent Orange.
Note: In 1973, the Paris Peace Accords mentioned the U.S. providing assistance to heal war wounds, but this was never fulfilled through reparations. Complete article
Reparations and international law: Uncounted costs of war October 2003 IRAQ was forced to pay full reparations for its war with Kuwait in 1990-91; payments were deducted from its UN-controlled oil revenues (1). But the United States has never paid a cent of reparations for its war in Vietnam, 1964-75. The International Court of Justice demanded that the US pay reparations for its war against Sandinista Nicaragua, conducted through the Contra movement in the early 1980s, but it refused to pay. And the US has since gone to war three times: in Kosovo, under cover of Nato; against Afghanistan, after 11 September 2001; and against Iraq in 2003. These wars, which cannot be regarded as legit imate peacekeeping operations, caused varying degrees of damage, the latest, against Iraq, being the worst in human and material devastation. Israel is conducting equally irresponsible military operations in the illegally occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza, where it has caused substantial damage to Palestinians and their property for 50 years, but there has been no question of reparations. In Africa, civil wars and international conflicts have caused millions of casualties and those directly and indirectly responsible have been clearly identified, but there is no prospect of successful proceedings for reparations.
U.S. still owes Vietnam reparations 04/29/2025 Not only does the U.S. continue to deny billions of dollars in reparations, but it had the unmitigated gall to demand that Vietnam pay the U.S. $140 million in war debts borrowed by the puppet regime of South Vietnam in exchange for normalizing trade relations. This is similar to the French government’s audacious demand in the 19th century that Haiti pay reparations for the French enslavers’ loss of their profits following the victory on Jan. 1, 1804, of the first independent Black Republic in the Western hemisphere.
The Forgotten Debt to Vietnam 11/18/2000 In 1972, pressing the North to sign a peace agreement, Henry Kissinger agreed in Paris to reparations for the war damage to Vietnam. The chief Communist negotiator, Le Duc Tho, first suggested $8 billion — $4.5 billion for the North, $3.5 billion for the South. By the time an agreement was initialed in January 1973, the figure was down to a total of $3.25 billion over a five-year period, with the possibility of an additional $1 billion to $1.5 billion for food and commodities. Of course, neither side respected the peace agreement. South Vietnam's president, Nguyen Van Thieu, launched military actions against Communists in the South, and Hanoi's forces made major gains in the Mekong Delta. Washington had its excuse to back off from its commitment to reparations.
What are reparations? 06/30/2023 The US state of California is considering paying reparations to descendants of slaves, thereby marking a turning point in American history. What other examples have there been of reparations in the past? ...... To this day, the US refuse to pay reparations, or any other form of compensation, relating to the Vietnam war. Worse still, in 1993, Vietnam's government was forced to assume the debt of the former South Vietnam to obtain loans and have a US embargo lifted. In 2007, however, the US did grant $400,000 to clean up dioxin residue in the former war zone. In May 2009, former US President Barack Obama increased US aid to Vietnam from $3 to $6 million dollars. Claims submitted by Vietnamese cancer patients were, however, rejected by US courts.
The War has finished almost 50 years, why the US government has not paid Viet Nam any penny for the war damages ($3.25 billions) and millions of victims of agent orange. But Viet Nam has already paid US $145 millions for the South Government's debt? 08/30/2024
USAID Provides Restitution for Victims of Agent Orange 05/17/2021
The Struggle Continues: Seeking Compensation for Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims, 52 Years On 08/10/2013 Over fifty years after chemical warfare destroyed the lives of many Vietnamese, little to no compensation has been awarded to the victims of these war crimes.
Toxic legacy, part 2: Fighting for justice after chemical warfare in Vietnam 06/03/2021 “If the American people knew about the situation of the victims of Agent Orange, of course, we would get more support. How can anyone know about this situation and not want to offer support?” – Mr. Phạm Trương, Director of International Relations for VAVA
The United States has never paid formal, direct reparations to Vietnam for damages, deaths, or environmental destruction (such as Agent Orange) caused during the Vietnam War. Instead, in 1993, Vietnam was forced to assume the debt of the former South Vietnamese government to normalize trade relations.
Key details regarding this issue include:
No Official Reparations: Despite the massive devastation, the U.S. has not officially compensated Vietnam for war damages.
Assumed Debt: Following the war, Vietnam was required to pay $145 million in debts inherited from the South Vietnamese government.
Aid, Not Reparations: The U.S. has provided aid to address war legacies, such as funding for cleaning up dioxin (Agent Orange) residue and assisting people with disabilities, but this is not classified as reparations.
Voluntary Assistance: USAID has provided over $94 million since 2011 for health-related services specifically for victims of Agent Orange.
Note: In 1973, the Paris Peace Accords mentioned the U.S. providing assistance to heal war wounds, but this was never fulfilled through reparations. Complete article
Reparations and international law: Uncounted costs of war October 2003 IRAQ was forced to pay full reparations for its war with Kuwait in 1990-91; payments were deducted from its UN-controlled oil revenues (1). But the United States has never paid a cent of reparations for its war in Vietnam, 1964-75. The International Court of Justice demanded that the US pay reparations for its war against Sandinista Nicaragua, conducted through the Contra movement in the early 1980s, but it refused to pay. And the US has since gone to war three times: in Kosovo, under cover of Nato; against Afghanistan, after 11 September 2001; and against Iraq in 2003. These wars, which cannot be regarded as legit imate peacekeeping operations, caused varying degrees of damage, the latest, against Iraq, being the worst in human and material devastation. Israel is conducting equally irresponsible military operations in the illegally occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza, where it has caused substantial damage to Palestinians and their property for 50 years, but there has been no question of reparations. In Africa, civil wars and international conflicts have caused millions of casualties and those directly and indirectly responsible have been clearly identified, but there is no prospect of successful proceedings for reparations.
U.S. still owes Vietnam reparations 04/29/2025 Not only does the U.S. continue to deny billions of dollars in reparations, but it had the unmitigated gall to demand that Vietnam pay the U.S. $140 million in war debts borrowed by the puppet regime of South Vietnam in exchange for normalizing trade relations. This is similar to the French government’s audacious demand in the 19th century that Haiti pay reparations for the French enslavers’ loss of their profits following the victory on Jan. 1, 1804, of the first independent Black Republic in the Western hemisphere.
The Forgotten Debt to Vietnam 11/18/2000 In 1972, pressing the North to sign a peace agreement, Henry Kissinger agreed in Paris to reparations for the war damage to Vietnam. The chief Communist negotiator, Le Duc Tho, first suggested $8 billion — $4.5 billion for the North, $3.5 billion for the South. By the time an agreement was initialed in January 1973, the figure was down to a total of $3.25 billion over a five-year period, with the possibility of an additional $1 billion to $1.5 billion for food and commodities. Of course, neither side respected the peace agreement. South Vietnam's president, Nguyen Van Thieu, launched military actions against Communists in the South, and Hanoi's forces made major gains in the Mekong Delta. Washington had its excuse to back off from its commitment to reparations.
What are reparations? 06/30/2023 The US state of California is considering paying reparations to descendants of slaves, thereby marking a turning point in American history. What other examples have there been of reparations in the past? ...... To this day, the US refuse to pay reparations, or any other form of compensation, relating to the Vietnam war. Worse still, in 1993, Vietnam's government was forced to assume the debt of the former South Vietnam to obtain loans and have a US embargo lifted. In 2007, however, the US did grant $400,000 to clean up dioxin residue in the former war zone. In May 2009, former US President Barack Obama increased US aid to Vietnam from $3 to $6 million dollars. Claims submitted by Vietnamese cancer patients were, however, rejected by US courts.
The War has finished almost 50 years, why the US government has not paid Viet Nam any penny for the war damages ($3.25 billions) and millions of victims of agent orange. But Viet Nam has already paid US $145 millions for the South Government's debt? 08/30/2024
USAID Provides Restitution for Victims of Agent Orange 05/17/2021
The Struggle Continues: Seeking Compensation for Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims, 52 Years On 08/10/2013 Over fifty years after chemical warfare destroyed the lives of many Vietnamese, little to no compensation has been awarded to the victims of these war crimes.
Toxic legacy, part 2: Fighting for justice after chemical warfare in Vietnam 06/03/2021 “If the American people knew about the situation of the victims of Agent Orange, of course, we would get more support. How can anyone know about this situation and not want to offer support?” – Mr. Phạm Trương, Director of International Relations for VAVA
Has the United States ever paid reparations to Iran for for the 1953 coup? Has the US ever paid reparations for either Iran or Iraq for arming both sides during the war in the 1980s? Has the US demanded reparations for the 1979 Iranian Revolution? 02/18/2026
The United States has not paid formal reparations to Iran for the 1953 coup or for its role in the 1980s Iran-Iraq war. However, in 2016, the U.S. settled a, long-standing legal case by paying $1.7 billion for a pre-1979 military sale. The US has actively demanded, and received via seized assets, compensation from Iran for actions related to the 1979 Revolution.
1953 Coup: The U.S. has never paid reparations for the CIA-backed coup. In 2016, Iran's parliament voted to formally demand compensation for this and other "hostile actions," but no payment was made.
1980s Iran-Iraq War: The U.S. has not paid reparations to Iran or Iraq for its, support of either side. While the U.S. provided intelligence and technology to Iraq, a 2003 International Court of Justice ruling determined that neither the US nor Iran were entitled to compensation for attacks on each other’s ships and oil platforms during that period.
1979 Revolution: The U.S. has not paid reparations for the revolution. Instead, the U.S. has actively sought and seized Iranian assets to compensate for the 1979 hostage crisis and other Iranian-backed actions.
1981 Algiers Accords: While not "reparations," the U.S. did settle a long-standing dispute regarding undelivered military equipment from the Shah’s era, paying $1.7 billion in 2016 to settle a case before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. Complete article
Iran set to press US for compensation for decades of 'hostile action' 05/17/2016 Iran's parliament on Tuesday voted through a law obliging the government to demand damages from the United States for 63 years of "hostile action and crimes," state television reported. "The government has the duty to take the necessary measures seeking compensation for material and moral damages caused by the United States" to the country and Iranians over the past 63 years, the text reads. It cites "material or moral damage" caused by the US during the coup against nationalist leader Mohammad Mossadegh (1953), during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in the destruction of oil platforms in the Gulf and via espionage targeting Iran. The move comes in the wake of the US Supreme Court ruling last month that frozen Iranian assets held in the US should be used to pay compensation for acts of Iranian-backed "terrorism".
U.S. to pay Iran $1.7 billion in legal settlement 01/17/2016 The U.S. State Department announced the government had agreed to pay Iran $1.7 billion to settle a case related to the sale of military equipment prior to the Iranian revolution, according to a statement issued on Sunday.
Compensate Iran for 1953 Coup? 05/18/2016 The compensation bill does not determine a monetary amount for the damages, the Islamic Republic News Agency reports. The CIA has acknowledged directing the 1953 coup, which drove out Iran’s democratically elected prime minister during a bitter dispute over control of oil. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi remained in power until the Islamic Revolution in 1979, months before the start of the iconic hostage crisis at the U.S. embassy in Tehran. The parliament is also seeking compensation for, among other things, 17,000 victims of assassination, the “martyrdom” of 223,600 soldiers in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, and more recently for damages for “blocking, confiscating or seizing of assets belonging to Iranian government, organizations or public and state-owned organizations and officials of Iran.” // This article is from the American Enterprise Institute which is infamous for distorting the truth and includes many false or misleading claims.
Iran, US Exempt from Compensation for Attacks in 1980s - 2003-11-06 10/30/2009 Judges at the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled Thursday that neither Iran nor the United States has to pay compensation for attacks on each other during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. This case deals with events that happened in the late 1980s, when Iran and Iraq were at war, and the United States sided with Iraq. U.S. forces destroyed three Iranian oil platforms in 1987 and 1988. U.S. officials say the attacks were in retaliation for Iranian strikes on U.S. ships in the Gulf. But Iran took the United States to the World Court in 1992, saying Washington broke a 1955 friendship agreement, and that its actions impeded trade. Iran wanted compensation. The United States filed a counter-claim, arguing that it was Iran that violated the treaty by attacking U.S. vessels in the Gulf with mines and missiles, and making trade difficult and dangerous. The United States also sought reparations. But the judges ruled that neither side is entitled to them. They found that the United States did use unjustified and disproportional force against Iran.
Wikipedia: United States support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War During the Iran–Iraq War, which began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran on 22 September 1980,[1] the United States adopted a policy of providing support to Iraq in the form of several billion dollars' worth of economic aid, dual-use technology, intelligence sharing (e.g., IMINT), and special operations training.[2]
U.S. AND IRAN SETTLE FINANCIAL CLAIMS 02/22/1996 $132 MILLION AGREEMENT COVERS 1988 AIRBUS DOWNING, BANKING DISPUTES The United States agreed with Iran to pay up to $300,000 to families of each of the Iranian passengers of an Iran Air jetliner shot down by a U.S. warship in 1988, the State Department announced yesterday.
Settling with Iran: $1.7 Billion and U.S. Hostages September 2016
The United States has not paid formal reparations to Iran for the 1953 coup or for its role in the 1980s Iran-Iraq war. However, in 2016, the U.S. settled a, long-standing legal case by paying $1.7 billion for a pre-1979 military sale. The US has actively demanded, and received via seized assets, compensation from Iran for actions related to the 1979 Revolution.
1953 Coup: The U.S. has never paid reparations for the CIA-backed coup. In 2016, Iran's parliament voted to formally demand compensation for this and other "hostile actions," but no payment was made.
1980s Iran-Iraq War: The U.S. has not paid reparations to Iran or Iraq for its, support of either side. While the U.S. provided intelligence and technology to Iraq, a 2003 International Court of Justice ruling determined that neither the US nor Iran were entitled to compensation for attacks on each other’s ships and oil platforms during that period.
1979 Revolution: The U.S. has not paid reparations for the revolution. Instead, the U.S. has actively sought and seized Iranian assets to compensate for the 1979 hostage crisis and other Iranian-backed actions.
1981 Algiers Accords: While not "reparations," the U.S. did settle a long-standing dispute regarding undelivered military equipment from the Shah’s era, paying $1.7 billion in 2016 to settle a case before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. Complete article
Iran set to press US for compensation for decades of 'hostile action' 05/17/2016 Iran's parliament on Tuesday voted through a law obliging the government to demand damages from the United States for 63 years of "hostile action and crimes," state television reported. "The government has the duty to take the necessary measures seeking compensation for material and moral damages caused by the United States" to the country and Iranians over the past 63 years, the text reads. It cites "material or moral damage" caused by the US during the coup against nationalist leader Mohammad Mossadegh (1953), during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in the destruction of oil platforms in the Gulf and via espionage targeting Iran. The move comes in the wake of the US Supreme Court ruling last month that frozen Iranian assets held in the US should be used to pay compensation for acts of Iranian-backed "terrorism".
U.S. to pay Iran $1.7 billion in legal settlement 01/17/2016 The U.S. State Department announced the government had agreed to pay Iran $1.7 billion to settle a case related to the sale of military equipment prior to the Iranian revolution, according to a statement issued on Sunday.
Compensate Iran for 1953 Coup? 05/18/2016 The compensation bill does not determine a monetary amount for the damages, the Islamic Republic News Agency reports. The CIA has acknowledged directing the 1953 coup, which drove out Iran’s democratically elected prime minister during a bitter dispute over control of oil. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi remained in power until the Islamic Revolution in 1979, months before the start of the iconic hostage crisis at the U.S. embassy in Tehran. The parliament is also seeking compensation for, among other things, 17,000 victims of assassination, the “martyrdom” of 223,600 soldiers in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, and more recently for damages for “blocking, confiscating or seizing of assets belonging to Iranian government, organizations or public and state-owned organizations and officials of Iran.” // This article is from the American Enterprise Institute which is infamous for distorting the truth and includes many false or misleading claims.
Iran, US Exempt from Compensation for Attacks in 1980s - 2003-11-06 10/30/2009 Judges at the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled Thursday that neither Iran nor the United States has to pay compensation for attacks on each other during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. This case deals with events that happened in the late 1980s, when Iran and Iraq were at war, and the United States sided with Iraq. U.S. forces destroyed three Iranian oil platforms in 1987 and 1988. U.S. officials say the attacks were in retaliation for Iranian strikes on U.S. ships in the Gulf. But Iran took the United States to the World Court in 1992, saying Washington broke a 1955 friendship agreement, and that its actions impeded trade. Iran wanted compensation. The United States filed a counter-claim, arguing that it was Iran that violated the treaty by attacking U.S. vessels in the Gulf with mines and missiles, and making trade difficult and dangerous. The United States also sought reparations. But the judges ruled that neither side is entitled to them. They found that the United States did use unjustified and disproportional force against Iran.
Wikipedia: United States support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War During the Iran–Iraq War, which began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran on 22 September 1980,[1] the United States adopted a policy of providing support to Iraq in the form of several billion dollars' worth of economic aid, dual-use technology, intelligence sharing (e.g., IMINT), and special operations training.[2]
U.S. AND IRAN SETTLE FINANCIAL CLAIMS 02/22/1996 $132 MILLION AGREEMENT COVERS 1988 AIRBUS DOWNING, BANKING DISPUTES The United States agreed with Iran to pay up to $300,000 to families of each of the Iranian passengers of an Iran Air jetliner shot down by a U.S. warship in 1988, the State Department announced yesterday.
Settling with Iran: $1.7 Billion and U.S. Hostages September 2016
Did the British kill more Irishmen than the Irish killed British while the British were occupying Ireland? 02/18/2026
Yes, over the centuries-long British occupation of Ireland, British forces and policies caused significantly more Irish deaths than vice versa. Major historical events, such as the Cromwellian conquest (1649–1653) and the Great Famine (1845–1852), resulted in massive, disproportionate loss of life compared to casualties inflicted on British forces by Irish resistance.
Here are key historical details regarding this imbalance:
Cromwellian Conquest (1649–1653): Estimates suggest 200,000 to 600,000 Irish deaths occurred due to war, famine, and disease during this period.
The Great Famine (1845–1852): Roughly 1 million Irish people died, with many historians attributing high mortality rates to British imperialist policies.
Irish War of Independence (1919–1921): Total deaths were approximately 2,300, including about 900 civilians, 523 police, and 413 British Army personnel.
The Troubles (1969–1998): During this 30-year conflict, republican paramilitaries were responsible for 60% of total deaths, while security forces were responsible for 10%.
While some conflicts like The Troubles saw high numbers of British soldiers killed by the IRA, the overall historical toll from conquest, colonization, and famine is heavily weighted toward Irish casualties. Complete article
Wikipedia: Irish War of Independence
ChatGPT estimates 1.2 to 1.7 million Irish died as a result of English occupation. It seems on the low side. Are there any reliable estimates of the number. 2022 Given the complexities and the long duration of English occupation, providing a precise range for the number of Irish people who died as a result of it is still difficult. However, considering some of the most significant events, a very rough estimate could be provided. Great Famine (1845-1852): Approximately 1 million deaths. Cromwellian Conquest (1649-1653): Estimates vary, but approximately 200,000 to 600,000 deaths. Nine Years' War (1593-1603), Williamite War (1689-1691), and various other rebellions and conflicts: Tens of thousands of deaths. Taking these figures into account, the death toll could potentially be in the range of 1.2 million to 1.7 million, although this is a very rough estimate and may not account for all deaths related to the English occupation
Wikipedia: The Troubles The Troubles (Irish: Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist[14][15][16][17] conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998.[18] ...... More than 3,500 people were killed in the conflict, of whom 52% were civilians, 32% were members of the British security forces, and 16% were members of paramilitary groups.[9] Republican paramilitaries were responsible for 60% of total deaths, followed by loyalist paramilitaries at 30% and security forces at 10%.[39]
Wikipedia: Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign
A glimpse into British atrocities in Ireland 10/27/2018 The film “Black ’47” is a dramatization of the ethnic cleansing of Ireland that resulted from the brutally oppressive conditions of British occupation and extraction. In Irish, it is known as An Gorta Mór — the Irish Famine.
Wikipedia: Ireland and World War I On average one British soldier out of every 3,000 of their troops that died in the war did so due to being court martialed and executed by firing squad, compared to the much higher one out of every 600 of the Irish troops that died.[36][37] Out of the total that were executed, 26 have since been retroactively pardoned.[39][40] The fourth and perhaps most important reason was the rise of radical nationalism after the Easter Rising of 1916[3]—an insurrection in Dublin by nationalists that left around 500 dead. Unlike the rest of the United Kingdom, conscription was never imposed on Ireland, a position it held with the British dominion of Australia in WWI. In the British dominion of Canada after conscription began there was a conscription crisis, in 1917, following this, when Irish conscription was proposed in the spring of 1918 (following the huge German spring offensive), it led to the Conscription Crisis of 1918, a mass assembly of civil disobedience and the proposal was dropped in May after the American entry into the War had helped stem the German advance.
During the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Paramilitary groups were responsible for 90% of deaths caused. The British Army were responsible for only 10% of deaths caused as they tried their best to restore law and order. 02/15/2025 3,600 people were killed in total the Troubles between 1969 - 1998. 1,400 of the people killed were British soldiers - almost 40% of the death total. The IRA was responsible for 2160 deaths - 60% of the total. The British Army was responsible for 360 deaths - 10% of the total. And yet the Labour Government continues to try to punish the British Soldiers who served during that time. There have been over 200 court cases trying to convict British soldiers who served for Queen and Country during the troubles - and not a single case to try to prosecute a member of the IRA. This is two tier policing 😤 😤 😤
Yes, over the centuries-long British occupation of Ireland, British forces and policies caused significantly more Irish deaths than vice versa. Major historical events, such as the Cromwellian conquest (1649–1653) and the Great Famine (1845–1852), resulted in massive, disproportionate loss of life compared to casualties inflicted on British forces by Irish resistance.
Here are key historical details regarding this imbalance:
Cromwellian Conquest (1649–1653): Estimates suggest 200,000 to 600,000 Irish deaths occurred due to war, famine, and disease during this period.
The Great Famine (1845–1852): Roughly 1 million Irish people died, with many historians attributing high mortality rates to British imperialist policies.
Irish War of Independence (1919–1921): Total deaths were approximately 2,300, including about 900 civilians, 523 police, and 413 British Army personnel.
The Troubles (1969–1998): During this 30-year conflict, republican paramilitaries were responsible for 60% of total deaths, while security forces were responsible for 10%.
While some conflicts like The Troubles saw high numbers of British soldiers killed by the IRA, the overall historical toll from conquest, colonization, and famine is heavily weighted toward Irish casualties. Complete article
Wikipedia: Irish War of Independence
ChatGPT estimates 1.2 to 1.7 million Irish died as a result of English occupation. It seems on the low side. Are there any reliable estimates of the number. 2022 Given the complexities and the long duration of English occupation, providing a precise range for the number of Irish people who died as a result of it is still difficult. However, considering some of the most significant events, a very rough estimate could be provided. Great Famine (1845-1852): Approximately 1 million deaths. Cromwellian Conquest (1649-1653): Estimates vary, but approximately 200,000 to 600,000 deaths. Nine Years' War (1593-1603), Williamite War (1689-1691), and various other rebellions and conflicts: Tens of thousands of deaths. Taking these figures into account, the death toll could potentially be in the range of 1.2 million to 1.7 million, although this is a very rough estimate and may not account for all deaths related to the English occupation
Wikipedia: The Troubles The Troubles (Irish: Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist[14][15][16][17] conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998.[18] ...... More than 3,500 people were killed in the conflict, of whom 52% were civilians, 32% were members of the British security forces, and 16% were members of paramilitary groups.[9] Republican paramilitaries were responsible for 60% of total deaths, followed by loyalist paramilitaries at 30% and security forces at 10%.[39]
Wikipedia: Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign
A glimpse into British atrocities in Ireland 10/27/2018 The film “Black ’47” is a dramatization of the ethnic cleansing of Ireland that resulted from the brutally oppressive conditions of British occupation and extraction. In Irish, it is known as An Gorta Mór — the Irish Famine.
Wikipedia: Ireland and World War I On average one British soldier out of every 3,000 of their troops that died in the war did so due to being court martialed and executed by firing squad, compared to the much higher one out of every 600 of the Irish troops that died.[36][37] Out of the total that were executed, 26 have since been retroactively pardoned.[39][40] The fourth and perhaps most important reason was the rise of radical nationalism after the Easter Rising of 1916[3]—an insurrection in Dublin by nationalists that left around 500 dead. Unlike the rest of the United Kingdom, conscription was never imposed on Ireland, a position it held with the British dominion of Australia in WWI. In the British dominion of Canada after conscription began there was a conscription crisis, in 1917, following this, when Irish conscription was proposed in the spring of 1918 (following the huge German spring offensive), it led to the Conscription Crisis of 1918, a mass assembly of civil disobedience and the proposal was dropped in May after the American entry into the War had helped stem the German advance.
During the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Paramilitary groups were responsible for 90% of deaths caused. The British Army were responsible for only 10% of deaths caused as they tried their best to restore law and order. 02/15/2025 3,600 people were killed in total the Troubles between 1969 - 1998. 1,400 of the people killed were British soldiers - almost 40% of the death total. The IRA was responsible for 2160 deaths - 60% of the total. The British Army was responsible for 360 deaths - 10% of the total. And yet the Labour Government continues to try to punish the British Soldiers who served during that time. There have been over 200 court cases trying to convict British soldiers who served for Queen and Country during the troubles - and not a single case to try to prosecute a member of the IRA. This is two tier policing 😤 😤 😤
During ther occupation of Ireland the British killed far more Irish than the Irish killed British, and the Irish were defending themselves in their own land; therefore isn't it more apropiate to call the British the terrorists than the Irish resistance? 02/18/2026
The question of whether to label British forces or the Irish resistance as "terrorists" is a central, subjective debate in Irish history, often framed by the perspective that "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter". While Irish resistance movements sought independence from colonial rule, British forces often employed severe tactics to maintain control, leading to high civilian casualties.
Arguments for British actions as Terrorism/Brutality: Historians and commentators note that British forces, particularly during the War of Independence and the Cromwellian conquest, used severe methods—including burning towns and targeting civilians—to crush the Irish nationalist movement, which some describe as state terrorism.
Arguments for Irish Resistance as Freedom Fighters: The Irish Republican Army (IRA) and its predecessors often viewed themselves as a legitimate army fighting against foreign occupation, arguing they were defending their land.
Contested Labels: The IRA was branded a terrorist organization by the British government due to their use of violence against civilian and state targets, especially during the conflict known as The Troubles (1969–1997).
Ultimately, the terminology often depends on whether the observer focuses on the cause (resistance to colonialism) or the methods (violence against targets, including civilians) employed by either side. Complete article
Did you know the British Empire’s brutal tactics that it exported around the world were first tested in Ireland - Britain’s earliest colony? February 2026
Terrorists or Freedom fighters? | Head to Head 05/16/2016 During the conflict in Northern Ireland, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was branded a terrorist organisation by the British government. The Republican fighters, however, saw themselves as a legitimate army fighting against the British occupation. It was a classic case of "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter". In this episode of Head to Head , Mehdi Hasan challenges Martin McGuinness, the elected deputy first minister of Northern Ireland and a former commander of the IRA, on his violent past; on why he sees himself as a man of peace; and on whether the Northern Irish Peace Process has lessons for other conflicts around the world.
Can someone explain the problem between the UK and Ireland? 2022 English rule for hundreds of years that erased our culture and language almost completely, killed our people, fueled famines, incited violence across the island as a whole, spread a toxic image of our people that resulted in Irish people being discriminated against globally with some places still having a very negative view of the Irish and the list goes on.
Wikipedia: Cromwellian conquest of Ireland The English Parliament imposed an extremely harsh settlement on the Irish population, driven by antipathy to the Catholic religion, and to punish Irish Catholics for the rebellion of 1641.
Why do some Irish people glorify the IRA when it is a terrorist organization? 2024
Was the IRA a terrorist organisation or a genuine army of resistance? 2017 Both. The IRA were terrorists in that they used the tactic known as terrorism on some occasions between 1969 and 1997. Terrorism is to act against the whole population causing terror among that population in the hope that decision makers will be influenced. It’s not an ideology, it’s a technique of ‘asymmetric warfare’. Often the side with all the resources will categorise will categorise all guerrilla warfare as ‘terrorism’ but in fact, terrorism is a subset of guerrilla warfare. Terrorism attacks civilian targets with the aim of causing terror. Guerrilla warfare attacks any point where a stronger opponent is in fact weaker (also including communications, off-duty military assets, command and control, supply and secretariat and logistics as well as unguarded populations). ..... Much more ...... Without the IRA, there would have been no Irish Republic and likely oppression in Northern Ireland would have been worse than it actually is. So yes, the IRA were terrorists and yes they were freedom fighters.
The question of whether to label British forces or the Irish resistance as "terrorists" is a central, subjective debate in Irish history, often framed by the perspective that "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter". While Irish resistance movements sought independence from colonial rule, British forces often employed severe tactics to maintain control, leading to high civilian casualties.
Arguments for British actions as Terrorism/Brutality: Historians and commentators note that British forces, particularly during the War of Independence and the Cromwellian conquest, used severe methods—including burning towns and targeting civilians—to crush the Irish nationalist movement, which some describe as state terrorism.
Arguments for Irish Resistance as Freedom Fighters: The Irish Republican Army (IRA) and its predecessors often viewed themselves as a legitimate army fighting against foreign occupation, arguing they were defending their land.
Contested Labels: The IRA was branded a terrorist organization by the British government due to their use of violence against civilian and state targets, especially during the conflict known as The Troubles (1969–1997).
Ultimately, the terminology often depends on whether the observer focuses on the cause (resistance to colonialism) or the methods (violence against targets, including civilians) employed by either side. Complete article
Did you know the British Empire’s brutal tactics that it exported around the world were first tested in Ireland - Britain’s earliest colony? February 2026
Terrorists or Freedom fighters? | Head to Head 05/16/2016 During the conflict in Northern Ireland, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was branded a terrorist organisation by the British government. The Republican fighters, however, saw themselves as a legitimate army fighting against the British occupation. It was a classic case of "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter". In this episode of Head to Head , Mehdi Hasan challenges Martin McGuinness, the elected deputy first minister of Northern Ireland and a former commander of the IRA, on his violent past; on why he sees himself as a man of peace; and on whether the Northern Irish Peace Process has lessons for other conflicts around the world.
Can someone explain the problem between the UK and Ireland? 2022 English rule for hundreds of years that erased our culture and language almost completely, killed our people, fueled famines, incited violence across the island as a whole, spread a toxic image of our people that resulted in Irish people being discriminated against globally with some places still having a very negative view of the Irish and the list goes on.
Wikipedia: Cromwellian conquest of Ireland The English Parliament imposed an extremely harsh settlement on the Irish population, driven by antipathy to the Catholic religion, and to punish Irish Catholics for the rebellion of 1641.
Why do some Irish people glorify the IRA when it is a terrorist organization? 2024
Was the IRA a terrorist organisation or a genuine army of resistance? 2017 Both. The IRA were terrorists in that they used the tactic known as terrorism on some occasions between 1969 and 1997. Terrorism is to act against the whole population causing terror among that population in the hope that decision makers will be influenced. It’s not an ideology, it’s a technique of ‘asymmetric warfare’. Often the side with all the resources will categorise will categorise all guerrilla warfare as ‘terrorism’ but in fact, terrorism is a subset of guerrilla warfare. Terrorism attacks civilian targets with the aim of causing terror. Guerrilla warfare attacks any point where a stronger opponent is in fact weaker (also including communications, off-duty military assets, command and control, supply and secretariat and logistics as well as unguarded populations). ..... Much more ...... Without the IRA, there would have been no Irish Republic and likely oppression in Northern Ireland would have been worse than it actually is. So yes, the IRA were terrorists and yes they were freedom fighters.
Black HistoryStudies: Both UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and U.S. President Ronald Reagan accused #NelsonMandela and the #ANC of being communists and terrorists in the 1980s, and Reagan’s administration even placed Mandela and the ANC on a terrorist watch list. 05/10/2025
(Video) Jews Against Genocide: Liberation struggles throughout history have been bloody. Those who wish to see all lives protected, a noble cause, must insist on upholding international law. Israel and its Western supporters do not care about international law. 12/28/2025 Jeremy Scahill "We are in the midst of one of the most epic lies in history, we are told to beleive that Palestinians are terrorists," when they're the victims of opression.
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Did Stop Antisemitism loose credibility after labeling Ms Rachel as an antisemite of the week and contender for antisemite of the year for opposing abuse of Palestinian children? 02/01/2026
The non-profit organization StopAntisemitism faced significant backlash and criticism regarding its credibility after naming Rachel Accurso—the popular children’s educator known as "Ms. Rachel"—as a finalist for "Antisemite of the Year" in December 2025. The nomination followed months of targeting by the group, stemming from Accurso's vocal support for Palestinian children in Gaza and her criticism of the Israeli government's actions, which StopAntisemitism labeled as "Hamas propaganda".
Key Aspects of the Controversy:
The Accusation: StopAntisemitism accused Ms. Rachel of pushing "misinformation from Hamas," failing to acknowledge Israeli child victims, and hosting Gazan photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, whom they deemed a terrorist sympathizer.
Backlash and Support: Many social media users, parents, and commentators criticized the move, arguing that opposing the killing of children and advocating for humanitarian aid is not antisemitism. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) publicly defended Ms. Rachel, stating she was "speaking up for starving children in Gaza".
"Antisemite of the Year" Context: Ms. Rachel was named a finalist alongside other figures, including media personalities and activists.
Subsequent Incidents: In January 2026, further controversy arose when Ms. Rachel’s account liked an antisemitic Instagram comment ("Free America from the Jews"). She claimed this was an accidental click while attempting to delete the comment and issued a tearful apology. Critics argued this incident supported their claims of a pattern of behavior, while supporters maintained it was an accidental interaction.
Impact on Credibility:
The initial nomination of a beloved, non-political children’s educator sparked debate over whether the group was trivializing the term "antisemitism" by using it to target humanitarian advocacy. While supporters of StopAntisemitism lauded their actions to hold her accountable, critics, including some on social media, suggested the action damaged the organization's credibility. Complete article
Miss Rachel Responds After Being Labeled ‘Antisemite Of The Year’ 12/06/2025 Miss Rachel Has Faced Immense Backlash. She’s faced a lot of backlash for these positions, from individuals and organizations that read support of Palestinian children as hate for Israel or for Jewish people. In fact, one organization, which calls itself Stop Antisemitism, has nominated her as one of the top ten to receive its “Antisemite of the Year” label. With her on the list of nominees are former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, and other media personalities and public figures ranging across the political spectrum, including right-wing podcaster Stew Peters; TikToker Guy Christenson; and martial artist and Holocaust denier Bryce Mitchell, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. It’s not the first time the cheery and upbeat personality has been targeted for her support of Palestinian kids, but this round seems to have reached a lot of angry people, and Miss Rachel is facing a lot of harassment and attacks.
Ms. Rachel Breaks Her Silence After Being Nominated for “Antisemite of the Year” and Her Response Is Heartbreaking 02/04/2026
Dave Smith, Obama bro blast Pro-Israel account for labeling Ms. Rachel 'antisemite' | RISING 12/02/2025 The X account 'Stop Antisemitism' received major backlash after listing the children's educational YouTuber Ms. Rachel as a finalist for its, 'Antisemite of the year.'
Middle East Eye: The American pro-Israel group StopAntisemitism has included children’s content creator Ms Rachel on its “Antisemite of the Year” list, targeting her for highlighting the suffering of Palestinian children. 02/03/2026
Toddler star Ms. Rachel named finalist for 'Antisemite of the Year' amid Gaza advocacy 12/01/2025
Ms. Rachel Comes Under Fire for Liking Antisemitic Instagram Comment 01/22/2026 The children's entertainer says it was an accident. Her critics say it points to a pattern.
Ms. Rachel Addresses Backlash After ‘Free America From the Jews’ Comment Was Liked on Her Instagram Account 01/22/2026 Accurso Says the ‘Like’ Was a Mistake, Not an Endorsement
Ms. Rachel Makes Tearful Apology After Liking Antisemitic Post 01/26/2026
Ms Rachel added to 'Anti-Semite of the Year' list by pro-Israel group 12/04/2025 How to get named Anti-Semite of the year; Step one defend children including Palestinians.
Mamdani urged to cut ties with Ms. Rachel after antisemitic comment controversy 01/23/2026
TRT World: Pro-Israel group StopAntisemitism has placed children’s content creator Ms. Rachel on its “Antisemite of the Year” list for sharing videos with her millions of followers highlighting the suffering of Palestinian children in Gaza. 12/02/2025 This is not the first time StopAntisemitism has targeted the YouTuber. In a letter to the US Attorney General in April, the organisation accused her of spreading propaganda and called for a federal investigation into whether she is being paid to share pro-Palestine content, suggesting this could violate a law aimed at preventing covert foreign influence in the United States. Ms. Rachel says she felt compelled to speak out after seeing a video of a traumatised Palestinian child who survived an Israeli bombing in Gaza. In January, she revealed she had been harassed and bullied online after raising more than $50,000 for humanitarian causes, including aid for Gaza.
‘Antisemite of the Year’: Pro-Israel group targets kids’ YouTuber Ms. Rachel Dec. 2025
“Antisemite of the Week” Includes Ms. Rachel, Greta Thunberg, Francesca Albanese, Miko Peled, Max Blumenthal, James Li, Guy Christensen, Jeremy Corbyn, Briahna Joy Gray, Shaun King, Susan Sarandon, Roger Waters, Bassem Youssef, Ian Carroll, John Cusack, Mark Ruffalo, Mehdi Hasan, Scott Ritter, Lawrence Wilkerson, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Zohran Kwame Mamdani, Cynthia McKinney, Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian,
The non-profit organization StopAntisemitism faced significant backlash and criticism regarding its credibility after naming Rachel Accurso—the popular children’s educator known as "Ms. Rachel"—as a finalist for "Antisemite of the Year" in December 2025. The nomination followed months of targeting by the group, stemming from Accurso's vocal support for Palestinian children in Gaza and her criticism of the Israeli government's actions, which StopAntisemitism labeled as "Hamas propaganda".
Key Aspects of the Controversy:
The Accusation: StopAntisemitism accused Ms. Rachel of pushing "misinformation from Hamas," failing to acknowledge Israeli child victims, and hosting Gazan photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, whom they deemed a terrorist sympathizer.
Backlash and Support: Many social media users, parents, and commentators criticized the move, arguing that opposing the killing of children and advocating for humanitarian aid is not antisemitism. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) publicly defended Ms. Rachel, stating she was "speaking up for starving children in Gaza".
"Antisemite of the Year" Context: Ms. Rachel was named a finalist alongside other figures, including media personalities and activists.
Subsequent Incidents: In January 2026, further controversy arose when Ms. Rachel’s account liked an antisemitic Instagram comment ("Free America from the Jews"). She claimed this was an accidental click while attempting to delete the comment and issued a tearful apology. Critics argued this incident supported their claims of a pattern of behavior, while supporters maintained it was an accidental interaction.
Impact on Credibility:
The initial nomination of a beloved, non-political children’s educator sparked debate over whether the group was trivializing the term "antisemitism" by using it to target humanitarian advocacy. While supporters of StopAntisemitism lauded their actions to hold her accountable, critics, including some on social media, suggested the action damaged the organization's credibility. Complete article
Miss Rachel Responds After Being Labeled ‘Antisemite Of The Year’ 12/06/2025 Miss Rachel Has Faced Immense Backlash. She’s faced a lot of backlash for these positions, from individuals and organizations that read support of Palestinian children as hate for Israel or for Jewish people. In fact, one organization, which calls itself Stop Antisemitism, has nominated her as one of the top ten to receive its “Antisemite of the Year” label. With her on the list of nominees are former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, and other media personalities and public figures ranging across the political spectrum, including right-wing podcaster Stew Peters; TikToker Guy Christenson; and martial artist and Holocaust denier Bryce Mitchell, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. It’s not the first time the cheery and upbeat personality has been targeted for her support of Palestinian kids, but this round seems to have reached a lot of angry people, and Miss Rachel is facing a lot of harassment and attacks.
Ms. Rachel Breaks Her Silence After Being Nominated for “Antisemite of the Year” and Her Response Is Heartbreaking 02/04/2026
Dave Smith, Obama bro blast Pro-Israel account for labeling Ms. Rachel 'antisemite' | RISING 12/02/2025 The X account 'Stop Antisemitism' received major backlash after listing the children's educational YouTuber Ms. Rachel as a finalist for its, 'Antisemite of the year.'
Middle East Eye: The American pro-Israel group StopAntisemitism has included children’s content creator Ms Rachel on its “Antisemite of the Year” list, targeting her for highlighting the suffering of Palestinian children. 02/03/2026
Toddler star Ms. Rachel named finalist for 'Antisemite of the Year' amid Gaza advocacy 12/01/2025
Ms. Rachel Comes Under Fire for Liking Antisemitic Instagram Comment 01/22/2026 The children's entertainer says it was an accident. Her critics say it points to a pattern.
Ms. Rachel Addresses Backlash After ‘Free America From the Jews’ Comment Was Liked on Her Instagram Account 01/22/2026 Accurso Says the ‘Like’ Was a Mistake, Not an Endorsement
Ms. Rachel Makes Tearful Apology After Liking Antisemitic Post 01/26/2026
Ms Rachel added to 'Anti-Semite of the Year' list by pro-Israel group 12/04/2025 How to get named Anti-Semite of the year; Step one defend children including Palestinians.
Mamdani urged to cut ties with Ms. Rachel after antisemitic comment controversy 01/23/2026
TRT World: Pro-Israel group StopAntisemitism has placed children’s content creator Ms. Rachel on its “Antisemite of the Year” list for sharing videos with her millions of followers highlighting the suffering of Palestinian children in Gaza. 12/02/2025 This is not the first time StopAntisemitism has targeted the YouTuber. In a letter to the US Attorney General in April, the organisation accused her of spreading propaganda and called for a federal investigation into whether she is being paid to share pro-Palestine content, suggesting this could violate a law aimed at preventing covert foreign influence in the United States. Ms. Rachel says she felt compelled to speak out after seeing a video of a traumatised Palestinian child who survived an Israeli bombing in Gaza. In January, she revealed she had been harassed and bullied online after raising more than $50,000 for humanitarian causes, including aid for Gaza.
‘Antisemite of the Year’: Pro-Israel group targets kids’ YouTuber Ms. Rachel Dec. 2025
“Antisemite of the Week” Includes Ms. Rachel, Greta Thunberg, Francesca Albanese, Miko Peled, Max Blumenthal, James Li, Guy Christensen, Jeremy Corbyn, Briahna Joy Gray, Shaun King, Susan Sarandon, Roger Waters, Bassem Youssef, Ian Carroll, John Cusack, Mark Ruffalo, Mehdi Hasan, Scott Ritter, Lawrence Wilkerson, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Zohran Kwame Mamdani, Cynthia McKinney, Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian,
How common is Jewish Supremacy ideology? Are Israelis or Zionists more likely to be Jewish Supremacists? 02/01/2026
The term "Jewish Supremacy" is used in distinct ways across political and religious contexts, making its perceived prevalence dependent on the definition applied.
Commonality of the Ideology
Among the Jewish Population: Direct belief in the inherent superiority of Jewish people over non-Jews is considered rare, particularly in the global diaspora. Most Jews, especially in the diaspora, emphasize solidarity with other minorities.
Political and Legal Context: Some human rights groups and scholars use the term to describe Israeli institutional structures that they argue prioritize Jewish rights over those of Palestinians. For example, the 2018 Nation-State Law is cited by critics as cementing "Jewish supremacy" by making the right to self-determination exclusive to the Jewish people.
Conspiratorial Use: The phrase is also frequently used by white supremacists and far-right extremists to promote antisemitic conspiracy theories regarding "Jewish global domination".
Prevalence Among Israelis vs. Zionists
The connection to these groups is complex and debated by scholars and political commentators:
Zionism: Some scholars and critics argue that Jewish supremacism has been a "dominating principle" within Zionism since its inception as a settler-colonial project. Conversely, many supporters and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) strongly reject this, characterizing Zionism as a national liberation movement for Jewish self-determination that does not inherently imply supremacy over others.
Israeli Politics: Within Israel, the term is increasingly linked to certain "right-wing" and religious nationalist factions. Critics suggest these groups are unapologetic about maintaining Jewish dominance throughout the region.
Comparison: High-profile critics, such as the organization B'Tselem, describe the entire "regime" in the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean as one of Jewish supremacy. However, this is a contested political characterization rather than a measurement of individual beliefs among Israelis or Zionists. Complete article
Jewish Religious Nationalism in Israel and the Racist Exclusion of Palestinians 08/06/2021 By: Nadeem Karkabi
Wikipedia: Jewish supremacy
Anyone else feeling frustrated by "Jewish supremacism"? 2022
This is apartheid: The Israeli regime promotes and perpetuates Jewish supremacy between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River 01/12/2021
A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid 01/12/2021
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The Vocabulary of Oppression: Jewish Supremacy from the River to the Sea 10/24/2022
The War for Jewish Supremacy Menachem Klein 2025
ADL: Zionism Is Nothing Like White Supremacy 08/22/2017
The Jewish supremacy at the heart of the Zionist project 06/20/2025 Ideas of Jewish supremacy have been central to the Zionist movement from its beginning. Just as we call out white supremacy in the United States, we must call out Jewish supremacy in occupied Palestine.
Great Replacement Theory: Here’s What Jews Need to Know About White Supremacy 05/17/2022
'Jewish supremacy' is an oxymoronic term - opinion 11/20/2022
Antisemitism on the rise: A research roundup 05/26/2022
Matthew - Chapter 7:5: Hypocrite! Take the log out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.
The Debate on Zionism and Racism Shari Treslcy 2005
The Zionist fallacy of ‘Jewish supremacy’ 01/09/2019 Framing Zionism as Jewish and not white supremacy is a dangerous proposition.
Jewish ‘self-determination’ or Jewish supremacy? 11/21/2022 Israel’s increased invocation of the so-called right of 'Jewish self-determination' as though it is foundational to the Zionist movement is belied by the historical record
What is Jewish supremacy and how is it different from White supremacy? 08/29/2017
The term "Jewish Supremacy" is used in distinct ways across political and religious contexts, making its perceived prevalence dependent on the definition applied.
Commonality of the Ideology
Among the Jewish Population: Direct belief in the inherent superiority of Jewish people over non-Jews is considered rare, particularly in the global diaspora. Most Jews, especially in the diaspora, emphasize solidarity with other minorities.
Political and Legal Context: Some human rights groups and scholars use the term to describe Israeli institutional structures that they argue prioritize Jewish rights over those of Palestinians. For example, the 2018 Nation-State Law is cited by critics as cementing "Jewish supremacy" by making the right to self-determination exclusive to the Jewish people.
Conspiratorial Use: The phrase is also frequently used by white supremacists and far-right extremists to promote antisemitic conspiracy theories regarding "Jewish global domination".
Prevalence Among Israelis vs. Zionists
The connection to these groups is complex and debated by scholars and political commentators:
Zionism: Some scholars and critics argue that Jewish supremacism has been a "dominating principle" within Zionism since its inception as a settler-colonial project. Conversely, many supporters and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) strongly reject this, characterizing Zionism as a national liberation movement for Jewish self-determination that does not inherently imply supremacy over others.
Israeli Politics: Within Israel, the term is increasingly linked to certain "right-wing" and religious nationalist factions. Critics suggest these groups are unapologetic about maintaining Jewish dominance throughout the region.
Comparison: High-profile critics, such as the organization B'Tselem, describe the entire "regime" in the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean as one of Jewish supremacy. However, this is a contested political characterization rather than a measurement of individual beliefs among Israelis or Zionists. Complete article
Jewish Religious Nationalism in Israel and the Racist Exclusion of Palestinians 08/06/2021 By: Nadeem Karkabi
Wikipedia: Jewish supremacy
Anyone else feeling frustrated by "Jewish supremacism"? 2022
This is apartheid: The Israeli regime promotes and perpetuates Jewish supremacy between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River 01/12/2021
A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid 01/12/2021
Opinion | Can We Really Use the Term ‘Jewish Supremacy’ About Israel? 11/14/2022 For many years, ‘Jewish supremacy’ was used by antisemites and neo-Nazis to demonize Jews. Does that mean we can’t use it to describe Israel's newly empowered Jewish far right, or Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians?
The Vocabulary of Oppression: Jewish Supremacy from the River to the Sea 10/24/2022
The War for Jewish Supremacy Menachem Klein 2025
ADL: Zionism Is Nothing Like White Supremacy 08/22/2017
The Jewish supremacy at the heart of the Zionist project 06/20/2025 Ideas of Jewish supremacy have been central to the Zionist movement from its beginning. Just as we call out white supremacy in the United States, we must call out Jewish supremacy in occupied Palestine.
Great Replacement Theory: Here’s What Jews Need to Know About White Supremacy 05/17/2022
'Jewish supremacy' is an oxymoronic term - opinion 11/20/2022
Antisemitism on the rise: A research roundup 05/26/2022
Matthew - Chapter 7:5: Hypocrite! Take the log out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.
The Debate on Zionism and Racism Shari Treslcy 2005
The Zionist fallacy of ‘Jewish supremacy’ 01/09/2019 Framing Zionism as Jewish and not white supremacy is a dangerous proposition.
Jewish ‘self-determination’ or Jewish supremacy? 11/21/2022 Israel’s increased invocation of the so-called right of 'Jewish self-determination' as though it is foundational to the Zionist movement is belied by the historical record
What is Jewish supremacy and how is it different from White supremacy? 08/29/2017
(Video) TerraMar Founder Speaks at the United Nations 03/19/2014 Ocean leaders and the TerraMar Project founder tell the world why an ocean-specific sustainable development goal at the United Nations is essential to healthy oceans for generations to come. Ghislaine Maxwell speaks at the UN, but probably not directly adressing a legislative body.
Fact check: Ghislaine Maxwell has not spoken to a U.N. legislative body nine times 08/26/2020 Two, Not Nine: A Reuters fact-check found that Ghislaine Maxwell spoke twice at events on U.N. premises, not nine times. .... Footage of Maxwell speaking at the U.N. in 2013 can be found here footage from 2014 can be found here; A U.N. spokesman emphasized to Reuters via email that speaking ‘at’ the U.N. is different than speaking ‘to’ the U.N. While Maxwell has spoken at events hosted by member states and non-governmental organizations on the U.N. premises, she had not, to his knowledge, ever addressed an official meeting of a U.N. legislative body, such as the General Assembly or the Security Council. On June 25, 2013, Maxwell spoke with His Excellency Stuart Beck, the then-ambassador of Palau to the U.N., during a press conference on the role of oceans in sustainable development ( here February 4, 2014, she spoke at an event hosted by the Sustainable Oceans Alliance, the governments of Italy and Palau, and the Global Partnerships Forum ( here;
Leif Atman: “A voluntary reconciliation with the Arabs is out of the question either now or in the future. If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison for the land, or find some rich man or benefactor who will provide a garrison on your behalf. Or else-or else, give up your colonization, for without an armed force which will render physically impossible any attempt to destroy or prevent this colonization, colonization is impossible, not difficult, not dangerous, but IMPOSSIBLE!… Zionism is a colonization adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important… to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot – or else I am through with playing at colonizing.” Revisionist Zionist Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940), Russian-born author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement and the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa, in an essay titled The Iron Law (1925) 12/17/2025
The Iron Wall 04/11/1923
Jewish Voice for Peace: Following the third night of Hanukkah we honor the legacy of Arna Mer-Khamis (1929-1995) Z’’L. Arna was born to Lithuanian Jewish settlers in British occupied Palestine. Arna was a teacher and activist who founded the organization, Defense of Children under Occupation/Care and Learning during the First Intifada. She focused on developing creative teaching methods, using theatre and art to help children in the Jenin Refugee Camp cope with chronic fear, depression, and trauma. Arna, alongside other women in the camp, led the program, creating a therapeutic space for healing and self-expression. Arna was raised Zionist and fought in the underground Palmach unit during the 1948 and the 1967 wars. After marrying Palestinian Christian Saliba Khamis, secretary of Israel’s Communist Party, she moved to Nazareth. By 1967, she began protesting the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and was imprisoned multiple times for her activism. In 1993 she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for her “passionate commitment to the defense and education of the children of Palestine”, her lifelong mission was to establish educational and cultural centers where children could recover from trauma. The Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians is not over, it is expanding. With funding and support from the US, the Israeli state is entrenching the long-term illegal control and annexation of territory in Gaza. In the face of vicious repression and escalating state violence here in the United States, we renew our commitment to ending the genocide. Our anti-Zionist Jewish ancestors give us strength. May their legacy light the path toward liberation. The miracle of Hanukkah was that against all odds the light endured—it was never extinguished. Hanukkah teaches us to persist, even in the darkest of moments. Inspired by our ancestors and out of a commitment to justice we keep going. Originally prepared for Dwell in Revolution: Ancestors for Judaism Beyond Zionism, a zine and portrait project by @micahbazant, @pushcartjudaica, @makingmensches. Art by: @_rubenstein 12/17/2025
(Video) By refusing to provide adequate coverage to Israel's mass murder of Journalists who expose their atrocities they're giving implied permission to kill Journalists. Reasonable people might conclude that no journalist should be a legitimate target, but if any are closer it would be accomplices covering up atrocities and mass murder of journalists. 12/18/2025 1030/2025 The New Arab: Valerie Zink, a photojournalist who left Reuters after the assassination of Anas al-Sharif, warns that Western media’s lies have normalised genocide and enabled Israel to kill with impunity. In an exclusive interview with The New Arab, she calls Reuters’ coverage “unforgivable,” describing how it amplified “genocidal propaganda” and repeated “lies intended to justify Israel’s atrocities.” For decades, Western outlets have “relentlessly dehumanised Palestinians,” presenting IDF press releases as credible accounts and omitting the Palestinian truth. “Journalism has failed our colleagues in Palestine,” she says. “But Palestinian journalists have become international heroes, reporting as their families are being annihilated.” For Zink, this ceasefire changes nothing. “Israel hasn’t gone a single day without violating it. The genocide still very much continues.” What must end, she insists, is not just the siege, but “the occupation, the apartheid regime, the colonisation of Palestinian lands.”
(Video) Novara Media: "Who are you going to trust to tell you what 'globalise the intifada' means: the world's 400 million Arabic speakers — or Wes Streeting?" Confused about why people are freaking out about yet another Arabic phrase sometimes used at Palestine protests? Rivkah Brown is here to explain the history. 12/18/2025
Dolores Peers: Operation Susanna: The Only False Flag Operation Israel Has Been Forced to Admit - Palestinian Historiographical Research 1. Introduction In contemporary debates on the military and intelligence conduct of the State of Israel, accusations of covert operations, sabotage, and deception are often dismissed by its defenders as mere political propaganda or conspiracy theories. However, the documented history of Israeli intelligence services shows that such practices not only existed, but in at least one case reached such a level of evidence that the State itself was forced to officially acknowledge them. That case is the so-called Operation Susanna, also known as the Lavon Affair (Lavon was probably a scapegoat for actions from more extreme Zionists, Ben-Gurion prevented evidence clearing him from being disclosed according to Avi Shlaim.). Far from being a retrospective accusation constructed from late leaks or hostile interpretations, Operation Susanna constitutes a historically verifiable episode in which Israeli agents carried out covert attacks against civilian and diplomatic targets in third countries to manipulate the regional geopolitical environment. Its historical significance lies not only in the nature of the operation but also in the exceptional fact that Israel ended up admitting its existence after years of denial and cover-up (Segev, 2019; Shlaim, 2000). ....... Much more 12/16/2025
(Video) Neturei Karta: Rabbi Dovid Feldman at The Jerusalem Covenant Conference in Istanbul, Turkey 12/17/2025 Zionism is misrepresenting Judiasm.
(Video) Ian UltraLau: Many of the times in history where Muslims protected Jews 12/20/2025
(Video) AJ+: This U.S. journalist was held in an Israeli torture prison at the same time as some of the Palestinian detainees recently returned to Gaza: “What happened to us in the light does not hold a candle to what happens ... to our Palestinian siblings in the dark.” 12/21/2025
(Video) Zeteo: Israeli settlers attacked 28-year-old American Luisa Kolb, and then attacked a Palestinian grandmother and two kids — threatening to burn them alive if they didn’t leave their land in the West Bank. Watch the full interview, link in bio. 12/12/2025
(Video) Dolores Peers: Evil, According to Brussels: When Palestinian Dead Children Don’t Count ____ NOW — Ursula von der Leyen, EU Chief at a Hanukkah ceremony said: “The night around us has indeed grown dark. The old evil is once again rearing its head. There can be no place for the poison of antisemitism, especially in Europe… Jewish culture is European culture.” In the recent shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, 2025, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that one Israeli citizen was killed and one was injured. The attack targeted a “Chanukah by the Sea” celebration and resulted in a total of 15 deaths (excluding one of the gunmen). The victims identified so far were members of the Jewish community, including Australian residents and foreign nationals from Israel, France, and Slovakia. 12/18/2025 And here we go again—Ursula von der Leyen declaring that “the old evil is once again rearing its head.” How many Jews were killed? And did we hear this same woman speak about “evil rearing again” when Israel wiped out over 680,000 civilians? Over 20,000 children under the age of 10 slaughtered. Did she mention evil then? Over 100,000 women killed. Did she mention evil then? Ninety percent of Gaza’s infrastructure obliterated. Did she mention evil then? People need to wake up. This is how these Anglo-Saxon power structures behave. They have been doing this for far too long. They write the laws on children’s rights, women’s rights, and human rights—then weaponize them when it suits their narrative. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has lasted 3 years, 9 months, and 23 days. As of December 17, 2025, the confirmed number of Ukrainian children killed since the start of the full-scale invasion is between 676 and 755. Israel, in just one year, slaughtered over 11,100 children under the age of 10—and continues killing children daily. Yet here stands Ursula von der Leyen, talking about “evil rearing again.” So who has done more killing and destruction—Putin, or Netanyahu and his fascist regime? It is Netanyahu who is fueling the rise of antisemitism by slaughtering civilians in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Iraq, and even threatening Qatar. And now he is framed as “fighting for Jews worldwide.” No, he is not. Israel does not represent all Jews. There are Jews in Iran, Yemen, Australia, America, and Europe who do not share Netanyahu’s militaristic worldview or support genocide. So why does Netanyahu claim to speak for all Jews? And back to Ursula von der Leyen: the EU has lost all credibility on human rights, children’s rights, and women’s rights. They were complicit. They armed Israel. They provided political cover while Israel violated every tenet of international law. Their hypocrisy is beyond imagination.
(Video) Disclose.tv: NOW - Ursula von der Leyen at Hanukkah ceremony: "The night around us has indeed grown dark. The old evil is once again rearing it's head. There can be no place for the poison of antisemitism, especially in Europe! ...Jewish culture, is European culture." 12/17/2025
(Video) Caitlin Johnstone’s Newsletter: If You're Not Free To Oppose A Genocide, Your Society Is Not Free 12/21/2025 If the right to free speech does not include the right to oppose an active genocide using strong and unmitigated language, then there is no freedom of speech. ......
Thinkandexist: Caption: Mass death no longer arrives screaming. It comes quietly — stamped, filed, justified, and explained in calm language. Power doesn’t need total annihilation; it only needs to remind people that their right to live is conditional, temporary, and revocable. Hashtags: 12/19/2025
(Video) Adele Shoko: Today, Israeli activists protested against the eviction of Palestinian families in Silwan area, East Jerusalem. Activists were met with aggressive Zionist counter-protesters — and police violence. 12/19/2025
(Video) René Upshaw: Gamal Abdel Nasser on how Zionist expelled, killed and terrorized Palestinians like the Nazis did to them previously. 12/21/2025
(Video) René Upshaw: .. October 7 2023. The lies told that Biden repeated even after being told we're false. .... Yossi Landau, head of operations of the ZAKA rescue unit, was unable to substantiate claims he made as an eyewitness of the aftermath of the 7 October 2023 attacks by Palestinian fighters against Israel, during an interview with Al Jazeera as part of an investigation. Landau was interviewed as one of the Israeli rescue workers dispatched to Kibbutz Be’eri, where he claimed children had been tied and burned to death. The death toll figures from Kibbutz Be’eri revealed only 10 children had been killed, Al Jazeera’s investigation reported. When Landau offered to show a picture that he alleged was a pregnant Israeli woman who had been cut open with her baby removed, Al Jazeera’s interviewer said that the picture showed an unidentifiable piece of charred flesh, and that the list of the dead contained no victim that fit Landau’s description. " 12/21/2025
(Video) 7 October witness Yossi Landau fails to substantiate claims in Al Jazeera investigation 03/22/2024 Yossi Landau, head of operations of the ZAKA rescue unit, was unable to substantiate claims he made as an eyewitness of the aftermath of the 7 October attacks by Palestinian fighters against Israel, during an interview with Al Jazeera as part of an investigation that aired on Wednesday.
Front Line Defenders: 📍OPT/ISRAEL: 🚨On 1 December, HRD Ayman Ghraieb was issued a 6-month administrative detention order by the Israeli Military Commander. This comes following his arrest on 17 November. He was first held in the Samra Israeli military base in the Jordan Valley before being transferred to a detention centre. The detention order was issued on the grounds that the defender is “endangering the safety of the region.” A judicial review hearing will be held at Salem Military Court within 12 days from the issue date. Ayman's work focuses on documenting human rights violations committed by Israeli authorities and settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. Front Line Defenders is deeply concerned by the administrative detention order issued against the HRD. We call on Israeli authorities to quash the administrative order and immediately and unconditionally release Ayman Ghraieb. 12/03/2025
Court upholds six-month administrative detention of Ayman Ghraieb 12/15/2025
Does opposition to killing Palestinian children make Ms. Rachel "Antisemitic?" Are those that think it does anti-Palestinian bigots? 12/22/2025 Adam Bates: There were a couple generations during which Americans essentially had no easy access to information that wasn't filtered through several layers of zionist propaganda. I'm convinced this fact lulled zionists into mistaking their monopoly control over access for philosophical credibility and rhetorical acumen. In that anti-competitive environment, they collectively got intellectually and rhetorically lazy. As a result, when decentralized internet media broke the monopoly zionists were caught completely off-guard. The rules changed, and suddenly zionism had to compete on a (relatively) level playing field against its negation, and in that fairer competition zionists have been soundly, terminally beaten. They repeatedly demonstrate that they have absolutely no idea what people are looking for, no ability to read a room, no wit or guile to pick their battles or win the battles they pick. Exhibit A: trying to turn an unassailably wholesome, kind, loving, virtual educator/babysitter for millions of people into a monster because she doesn't think Palestinian children should be blown to pieces, then doubling and tripling and quadrupling down. This was never going to end any other way, and a movement that can't see that coming from light years away is a movement destined for history's trashheap. Get out while you can, zionists. Repent and fix your hearts and move on.
(Video) The Sundeep: Israel has been bombing Lebanon for a long time; the sun rises in the East, Israel bombs it's neighbors. The United States is asking Lebanon to retuyrn unexploded bombs. 11/30/2025
US asks Lebanon to return undetonated GBU-39 bomb, fearing it could reach Russia, China - report 11/28/2025 The GBU-39 is a glide bomb manufactured by Boeing. Once launched, it deploys wings and can glide up to 110 km, despite lacking its own engine.
Bruce Gagnon: Palestine & Venezuela solidarity protest in Maine shopping mecca Freeport Organizing Notes 12/21/2025
Palestine & Venezuela solidarity protest in Maine shopping mecca Freeport 12/21/2025
Susan Gordon: This Jew says yes to this. Fuck Israel and Zionism straight to hell. On top of Zionism‘s 100+ years of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, racist ethno-nationalism, war crimes, murder, rape, torture, baby-killing, and every atrocity imaginable, it is also the greatest fomenter of anti-Semitism. This murderously fascist, genocidal ideology must be brought to an end. It poses a threat to the entire planet. 12/16/2025
Jonathan Cook, journalist: Why is Israel viewed as so essential to western elites that they are willing to be seen openly backing its genocide in Gaza? Because Israel is creating a vision of the near-future, it is developing the template for how they deal with surplus sections of western populations in a world of diminishing resources and an ever-more hostile climate. And all the better for our rulers, any resistance on our part to the Palestinians’ enslavement and slow extermination – and to our own growing servitude and abuse – can be characterised as antisemitism. In outsourcing this project to Israel, western establishments have devised the ultimate cover story. 12/20/2025
Jonathan Cook: Western elites fear a 'globalised intifada' because they are its targets, not Jews 12/20/2025 While western publics are being demonised as racists, the technology and strategies used today against Palestinians will become the walls of tomorrow’s prisons for us all.
(Video) Yunus Elias: The reason they have a song about burning native Palestinian villages is because they lack any of their own. In the Levant, having a village is a connection to roots, history, and identity. These parasites have no links to this land and our villages are their daily reminder. 👇 Israeli TikToker Hen Ben Moha (189k followers) posted a workout video set to the song “May Their Village Burn.” They are using it for workout motivation. Their society isn't just sick—it's genocidal who celebrating mass murder as a lifestyle. 12/22/2025
(Video) AJ+: With Christmas approaching, Dena Takruri wonders: Why do some evangelical Christians in the U.S. support Israel OVER their fellow Christian Palestinians? 12/22/2025
Crys Alexandria: AIPAC'S MISSING TAB -- BOARD AND OFFICERS REVEALED: "AIPAC has obfuscated the identities of its directors and officers from the American public, so today we're providing the transparency this organization refuses to offer. AIPAC is not an abstraction—it is governed by real people who make decisions that have a real impact on the lives of people all around the world. The public has a right to easily know who they are." The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) should stop hiding the board members and executive staff who govern and direct its operations from its public website, said DAWN today. - Sarah Leah Whitson *link in comments 12/18/2025
AIPAC: Stop Hiding Identities of Officers and Directors 12/18/2025 DAWN Launches "The Faces of AIPAC" — The Missing "Who We Are" Page on AIPAC's Website
ProPublica: American Israel Public Affairs Committee Full text of "Full Filing" for fiscal year ending Sept. 2024
(Video) CloakedTruth: Bassem Youssef on how Israel is racist against Etheopians and others and even sterilized them; Israel is a racist apartheid country. 12/23/2025
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Carlos Berberian: For centuries, #Muslims have protected one of Christianity's holiest sites in #Palestine: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in #Jerusalem. Since 1187, the keys to the church have been held by Muslim families, entrusted by Salah ad-Din (Saladin) to maintain peace among #Christian communities. Every morning and evening, #Muslim custodians open and close the church, a living symbol of faith, respect, and coexistence in the Holy Land. 12/23/2025
Phil Rockstroh: Regarding the belligerently ignorant trolls who snarl, I have betrayed Judaism for condemning genocide, I reply, If the Messiah arrived and commanded Israel and its apologists to repent they would call the Messiah a kapo. (The term "kapo" is a vehement Jewish rebuke, an appellation referring to Jewish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps designated to act as the ears, eyes and arm of power of the SS in regard to aiding in the brutal control of the daily existence of their fellow inmates. The invective is a term designating an act of unforgivable betrayal insofar as acting as a collaborator with a mortal enemy of Jews.) In my view, the son of a survivor of the Shoah, the dismal and deranged trajectory, via from Europe to the Zionist state, from proceeding from victims of genocide to the perpetrators of the abomination is a betrayal of Judaism. 12/19/2025
Phil Rockstroh's Substack: End Stage Zionist Hasbara And Its Trolls: The Israel as victim canard, it's all over but the shouting 12/18/2025
Jews Against Genocide: Greta and #PalestineAction prisoners are heroes. Starmer and Lammy are complicit in Israel's #GazaGenocide. #StopArmingIsrael #ICC4Israel #BanIsrael BoycottIsrael BDS 12/23/2025
Socialist Alliance: When we dismantle the racist, exploitative system that treats one human life as inherently more valuable than another, real peace and prosperity is possible 12/21/2025
(Video) Novara Media: The Israel lobby loves to push the argument that clamping down on freedom of speech makes Jewish communities safer. In reality, it's "one of the worst things you can do for community relations", Ash Sarkar says on Novara Live. And such division is no accident 12/18/2025
Palestinian Historiographical Research: 80% of the Christians living in Israel are Palestinians whom they were unable to expel, but whose lands and properties they did confiscate. Introduction 12/23/2025 The history of Palestinian Christians who remained within the borders of the State of Israel after 1948 is not a story of full integration or normal continuity. Rather, it is the story of a community that managed to remain physically on its land but was legally dispossessed of much of it. Although many Palestinians—Muslims and Christians—were expelled or fled during the 1948 Nakba, a portion of them remained within the new state. However, their permanence did not prevent the Israeli state from implementing a set of laws that enabled the massive confiscation of land and property, irreversibly altering their historical relationship with the territory. This dispossession affected the majority of the Arab population that remained in Israel, including Christians, who lost millions of dunams of arable land in total through legal mechanisms such as the Absentees’ Property Law, representing a massive transfer of resources to state and Jewish institutions (Forman & Kedar, 2004; Masalha, 2012). In addition, the Nakba not only involved direct expulsions but also the destruction of more than 530 Palestinian villages, many of which had mixed Christian communities, exacerbating the social and economic fragmentation of the Christians who remained (Morris, 2004; Masalha, 2012; Khalidi, 1992). 1. Palestinian Christians before 1948. ...... Complete Article
(Video) AJ+: Assal Rad, a historian whose "fixed” news headlines often go viral, spoke to AJ+’s Dena Takruri about how Western media goes out of its way to "obscure the reality of what is going on" in Gaza. 12/24/2025
Qasim Rashid: There’s no such historical thing as a “Judeo-Christian” culture. Christians have persecuted Jews throughout world history. Whether it was force converting Jews to Christianity under Roman rule, violently exiling Jews from Jerusalem during the Crusades, pogroms against Jews during Medieval Europe, more forced conversion of Jews to Christianity under Spanish rule, exiling Jews from cities and states in the United States during the 19th century, blocking Jewish refugees pre-Holocaust, or committing genocide via the Holocaust during WW2—there has never been an era where Jews lived in any sort of general peace under Christian rule as to be dubbed “Judeo-Christian” culture. 12/21/2025 I’m going to write more about this in detail, but I bring it up in brief now to point out that the same people today who claim a “Judeo-Christian” culture exists, do so for two reasons. 1. To deny the centuries of violent persecution Christian nations, kings, and presidents have committed against Jewish people. 2. To make it seem like Jews and Muslims are enemies of each other. In reality, Muslims throughout history have long protected Jewish people from attack and persecution—up through and including protecting them from Nazis during the Holocaust. There are forces working hard to divide us. None of them are grounded in justice. All of them are grounded in greed and hate. Muslims, Jews, Christians, believers, non-believers — we are not enemies of one another. Do not let anyone claim that we are. Our collective enemies are hate, injustice, and dehumanization of the other. Don’t fall for it. Let our collective humanity be our refuge.
(Video) Willz.talks: #greenscreenvideo #greenscreen every accusation is a confession with these people, because they refuse to see what is in front of their eyes because it pays so well not to 12/19/2025
Jonathan Cook, journalist: From my "Open letter to Met police chief: Let me tell you what ‘Globalise the intifada’ actually means": Let me make a final point, Sir Mark Rowley. There will be more terror attacks on Jews in the West. However unjustified, however depraved, that is inevitable when a state claiming to represent Jews – and aided and abetted by western powers – keeps killing, maiming, jailing, torturing and humiliating peoples across the Middle East. 12/2/2025 Such attacks won’t even necessarily come from an organised group, such as Islamic State or al-Qaeda. There will always be someone somewhere watching Israel kill and disfigure Muslim, Christian and Druze children – and see western capitals defend its right to do so – who will be so horrified and sickened by the spectacle that they will decide to improvise a form of vengeance. And with Israel and every western politician telling them that there is no difference between the state of Israel and the Jewish people – that the two are identical – there will always be someone somewhere who decides to take out their fury on an easy Jewish target rather than a much harder Israeli military one. However indefensible, there is nothing inexplicable about this. Which means, given Israel’s criminality, the terror attacks will keep coming. Which, in turn, means that there will keep being reasons for Israel and its apologists like Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis to demand that basic freedoms in the West be curtailed – that speech and protest on Palestine be criminalised – to ensure the safety of Jews. However much you deny Palestinians and their supporters the right to march and chant against genocide and British collusion in it, the terror attacks will continue. Which means the erosion of basic rights will continue too. We are in a democratic death spiral – and all to protect Israel’s genocide from public opposition. I suspect you know all this. And I also suspect you don’t care. Because your primary job is not public order or public safety but protecting the interests of the British establishment. And that establishment has decreed that Israel’s genocide has the UK’s full backing, and that no opposition will be tolerated. This is an extract from my latest open letter to the Met police chief. Read the rest here:
Jonathan Cook Blog: Open letter to Met police chief: Let me tell you what ‘Globalise the intifada’ actually means 12/18/2025
(Video) AJ+: This South African Flotilla activist was strip-searched by Israelis multiple times, had her hijab taken away and was made fun of for her mastectomy. Despite the humiliation, Dr. Fatima Hendricks told Yara Elmjouie she chose to “walk proudly” and urges everyone to help break the siege on Gaza. 12/15/2025
BreakThrough News: For the third year in a row, Israel is barring Gaza’s Christian community from making their annual Christmas pilgrimage to Bethlehem, the Palestinian town regarded in the Bible as the birthplace of Jesus Christ. 🔗Read the full article at breakthroughnews.org or visit the link in our bio. 12/2/2025
Three Years without Christmas in Gaza 12/22/2025
Thiago Ávila: @gretathunberg after the shameful arrest by UK authorities for holding a sign in solidarity with the 6 people at the brink of death on hunger strike and the Felton 24 of Palestine Action who were brave enough to do what the governments were not doing and stopped the arms factories who were sending supplies used by Israel on its genocide against the Palestinian people. Like Greta, hundreds of people in the UK have already been arrested for holding similar signs, people from all generations and all conditions (even blind people and on wheelchairs). This is the livestreamed tomb of the Global North hypocrisy about human rights, freedom of speech and civil liberties. We must make the efforts by Greta and the others count. We must spread the message. If they arrested her so that the sign she was holding would not be used again, the whole world must hold it as well. I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS. I OPPOSE THE GENOCIDE 12/23/2025
AJ+: Israeli arms companies are making record-high profits from the genocide in Gaza, and they’re using images of strikes in Gaza to market their weapons, mostly rockets, missiles and air-defense systems. This is despite the fact that experts say it’s illegal under international law to buy or sell weapons from a country committing genocide. 12/23/2025
(Video) Hervé Dias: Israeli Settler runs over Palestinian during prayer in West Bank 12/25/2025
Zionism is more of a Class Conflict than it is of a religious conflict, although they obviously associate it with religion. Some of the stereotypes applied to Jews actually describe the upper greedier class, not all Jews, and many non-Jews. This is clear when you read about the educated Jews with class conscience that often join groups defending the poor or anti-Zionist Jews. The Christmas Carol is more critical of the greedy upper class than Jews. 12/25/2025 John Melody: Surprising observations from a Jewish writer named Seth Rogovoy in a publication named “Forward: Jewish. Independent. Nonprofit.” Excerpts: “It’s pretty easy to read ‘A Christmas Carol’ as anti-Semitic. The main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, is a moneylender who doesn’t celebrate Christmas. Full stop there. But there’s more: the name Ebenezer is Hebrew, deriving from the phrase eben ha-ezer, meaning ‘stone of the help.’ Scrooge’s dead friend and former business partner, Jacob Marley, sports a fully Jewish moniker – his first name one of the Jewish forefathers, and his Hebrew family name meaning ‘It is bitter to me.’ Scrooge not only doesn’t observe Christmas festivities; rather, he hates Christmas. He’s a mean and nasty guy, and Dickens even gives him a ‘pointed nose’ to boot.” “The last word goes to William Melton, writing in the Riverfront Times, of St. Louis, Missouri, who asked rhetorically, ‘Are we the only ones who’ve noticed that this widely accepted, celebrated piece of literature is actually wildly anti-Semitic? We’re dealing with a cold, greedy Jewish banker sporting a pointed nose. In the end … the miserly, Jewish banker opens his heart to the Spirit of Christ — and then, and only then, is he transformed into a loving human being. Scrooge done got himself saved.’”
Is ‘A Christmas Carol’ antisemitic? 12/06/2019 By Seth Rogovoy
(Video) Willz.talks: You [Noa Tishby] are a paid propaganda by the Netanyahu government. I don’t know how you can see that you don’t have blood on your hands.#greenscreenvideo 12/23/2025
(Video) This is the founder of Stop Antisemitism Liora Rez, and if anything she's worse than what he says about her, this includes smearing Ms. Rachel, which is so extreme she overplayed her hand and many people see through her. 12/25/2025
(Video) Liora Rez "We will follow you for the rest of your life, when you look for a job, when you look for a nanny, when you do anything." 12/25/2025
(Video) John Melody: Abby Martin "Don't you think it's wierd that Israel supporters are defending Epstein and opposing disclosure of the Epstein Files." 12/25/2025
(Video) Robert Rosenthal: Why do Zionists claim a chant calling for Palestinian freedom is “antisemitic?” The first thing to remember is that Zionists often use bogus antisemitism claims to silence criticism of Israel. Many don’t want the world reminded that Israel is overseeing apartheid in the West Bank and a genocide in Gaza. Or that Palestine was ethnically cleansed when Zionists created an ethnostate with exclusive rights for Jews. Zionists frequently say equal rights for every human being, regardless of religion, ethnicity, and race, would “destroy” Israel. What does that say about Israel in its present form – and about Zionism? Me? I view Zionist claims of oppression being a Jewish value as antisemitic. See the link below to view the video, and a separate link to view a post in The Progressive Jew on the chant calling for Palestinian freedom. 12/18/2025
(Video) Novara Media: In the wake of Sydney's Bondi beach massacre, in which 15 people were killed at a Hanukah celebration, Britain's chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis blamed pro-Palestine slogans. Speaking to Sky News’ Sophy Ridge, Mirvis said: "We have to crack down on hate speech in a far more forceful and emphatic way than we previously have been doing. "Let's take, for example, cries such as 'From the river to the sea' or 'Globalise the intifada'. What does 'Globalise the intifada' mean? It means what happened in Manchester on Yom Kippur [two people and the assailant were killed in an attack on a synagogue in October]. It means what happened in Bondi beach. The time has come once and for all not to allow such rhetoric to poison the minds of people." Two years ago, Rivkah Brown explained the origins of the Palestinian rallying cry 'From the river to the sea' – and the Israel-led propaganda campaign to portray it as antisemitic. 12/25/2025
The Uproar Over “…Palestine Will Be Free” 12/20/2025 Robert Rosenthal
(Video) Jews Against Genocide: Comrawire: "A German journalist has revealed that she was raped, while held in Israeli detention. We spoke with Anna Liedtke, also an activist with Zora, who was arrested by Israeli forces while working as a journalist aboard a Freedom Flotilla Coalition vessel heading to Gaza. Liedtke went public with her case just days ago. She told us her aim is to make clear that the issue goes beyond her own experience and to expose the violence inside Israeli prisons that Palestinians face every day. The Israeli forces held Liedtke for five days after intercepting the Conscience vessel, a ship attempting to challenge Israel's naval blockade of Gaza. Rights groups say her case adds to growing evidence of systematic sexual abuse in Israeli detention." 12/26/2025
(Video) A German journalist has revealed that she was raped, while held in Israeli detention. We spoke with Anna Liedtke, also an activist with Zora, who was arrested by Israeli forces while working as a journalist aboard a Freedom Flotilla Coalition vessel heading to Gaza. 12/26/2025
(Video) CODEPINK: Women For Peace: "STOP STEALING PALESTINIAN LAND! GO BACK TO SAN FRANCISCO!" Today, Israeli settlers were visiting Congress as the House held a hearing on so-called "Judea and Samaria," more commonly known as the occupied West Bank. These settlers are committing ethnic cleansing in Palestine. They steal land and occupy it in attempts to expand "Israeli" borders. Many of these settlers are Americans. We let them know they need to go home. 12/10/2025
(Video) Subject to confirmation with AI lately, but it's not a bad fake if it's not real, though a source would help. 12/27/2025 Censored or Deleted Video, even if it's fake, which it probably is, they should debunk it with an explanation instead of censoring it.
Keren Rubinstein: Here's what I said today in Naarm about antizionism with some brilliant antizionists and to a cherished crowd: As antizionists we come together today in mournful respect, to resist all forms of racism, including antisemitism, anti-Palestinian racism and anti-Islamism as well as all forms of unfair discrimination. We've been demonised in the news and called antisemitic, along with others advocating for universal human rights. Don't believe the news. And don't believe the antisemitism envoy. And don't believe the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Divisive policies such as these are eroding democracy here, just as Zionism does elsewhere. 12/22/2025 As antizionists we know that humans are not divided up into different species: We’re all the same and should all be treated the same. These are the core values of antizionism. And we have come to this position because we were all Zionised at some point, and have come to decouple our identity from the Zionist agenda. Antizionism doesn’t seek to deprive anyone of their safety or human rights. We simply ask that state violence does not continue, and that it doesn't also get to claim the moral high ground – not here on indigenous lands, or anywhere. And that includes my birthplace, in Israel, which is occupied Palestine. I can go back there whenever I want, but a Palestinian who can trace her family tree back to the 1400s cannot. Why? Because she is not Jewish. My friend was surveilled and discriminated against, enduring over 60 discriminatory laws along with other Palestinians living there, and an incalculable amount of discrimination – erasure. I don't believe any group has the right to do this or to commit a genocide in the name of their sovereignty. My father's family survived the Holocaust and migrated to Palestine. They were scarred. I cannot trace my roots as far back as my Palestinian friend, because they too endured such persecution as to be completely erased and are now unknown to us. This paved the path for me to never allow a state to turn someone else into my enemy, never to elevate the flag over the lives of others. Knowing that good people can be brainwashed to commit atrocities and still believe they're in the right – this must be resisted! Then, as now. Judaism and Zionism must be separated. All Jewish people do not support Zionism, an ideology of Jewish so-called self determination, because it is abundantly clear that it is a settler-colonial project that has come at the expense of Palestinian people. We are here merely to say that this is not just, not moral, and not legal. It does not make anyone safe. Not Jewish people, and obviously not Palestinians. What kind of parallel horror world are we living in where advocating for fairness and equality is said to be the cause of bloodshed?? Has everyone gone mad? No, they are just misguided by Zionism. I refuse to be told which community deserves my mourning and which doesn’t, who’s for me and who’s against me. Israel doesn’t represent me and it doesn’t represent Jewish people: it represents Zionism. And insisting that all Jewish people support a genocidal apartheid state is antisemitic. Excluding antizionist voices is antisemitic. Supremacists of all kinds are the enemies of a peaceful society and antisemitism cannot be singled out as an exceptional form of racism. The only way to guarantee our safety is to ensure that everyone is safe . Uphold the law without bias and make Australia unwelcome to Zionist ideology, as well as all forms of racism. Like Australia, Israel is a settler colony based on the violent occupation of land, while, again, taking the moral high ground. This is gaslighting of the worst sort. Anticolonial struggle, including antizionism, will exist as long as this ideology and practice of violent supremacy exists. we’ll continue to advocate for de-zionisation, for the right to free speech, free dress, and free political expression, the right to peaceful protest and the right to self defence from violence and oppression. Zionism is a political ideology that seeks to disregard the rights of others – palestinians, and anyone who objects, including people in the Jewish community - and persuade the world that this is in our best interest. We are here to reject this demonstrably false idea. Zionism must go! Jewish people, like all people, can live side by side in a pluralistic and democratic society, which is what we are fighting for.
Ali Tabla: You sons of devils, the Israeli bombardment that hit the Passports, Immigration, and Nationality building in Syria resulted in burning and completely destroying the building along with all the Syrian citizens’ identity documents inside it. And of course, the goal is well known: creating future chaos by destroying Syrians’ official identities, which now allows Israel to infiltrate by planting thousands of spies with fake identities and passports, especially in the absence of official records to verify nationality records for those spies who would be embedded in the new population structure. Some of them could even reach leadership positions in the future, while the new ruling system in Syria right now is all about “order,” and I’m just pretending to be asleep. 🤨 12/25/2025
(Video) Drop Site News: Hamas is publicly challenging Israel and its U.S. backers to allow an open, impartial international investigation into October 7—rejecting Israeli claims about the operation and categorically denying allegations of the deliberate killing of children or the rape of women. In a new political document, Hamas says that “during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7, the resistance did not target any hospital, school, or house of worship; it did not kill a single journalist or any member of ambulance crews,” adding: “We challenge the entity to prove otherwise.” The movement calls for “an impartial international investigation into the claims of Israeli civilian deaths on October 7,” alongside a parallel probe into Israeli crimes committed during Israel’s war on Gaza. The demand appears in a 42-page narrative released by Hamas today, laying out its account of October 7, Israel’s subsequent war on Gaza, and its view of the current political moment and what comes next. 12/27/2025
(Video) TRT World: "A genocidal state can’t respond to the substance of my finding and the best thing that he resorts to is accusing me of witchcraft." UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese slammed Israel’s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, for calling her a “witch” following her 24-page report on Israel’s actions in Palestine's Gaza. She described his attack as “grotesque and delusional” during the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee session on October 28. 10/30/2025
(Video) John Melody: Israel finances all expense trips to Israel for people helping with propaganda and encourages Jews to move to Israel, possibly helping to kill Palestinians and steal land. 12/27/2025
(Video) People should read Human Rights reports more often; traditional media almost never tells us about them. Here's one good report, I'll write about more soon. 12/27/2025 I posted a list of more Human Rights Reports in a previous article: To go straight to the list scroll down to, or use the search on this page function to "The following are mostly sources from Norman Finkelstein's book "Beyond Chutzpah," mostly from human rights organizations documenting atrocities committed by Israel" Human Rights Watch: 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴! With so many urgent crises needing our attention, your support has never been more important. This year has been one filled with immense conflict, and we can expect these same atrocities to continue into the new year. At a time when authoritarianism is on the rise, we urgently need humanitarians like YOU by our side. Please will you take advantage of our 5X year-end match right now to help Human Rights Watch expose the truth and hold perpetrators accountable in 2026 and beyond?
Welcome to Hell August 2024
Can Zionists Defend Their Agenda Without Suppressing Academic Freedom? 03/30/2025
Elizabeth Berry: In case you are wondering how Israeli settlers, even those few not actually committing atrocities can live right next door and ignore them. Look no further than this Nazi family. Hedwig Hoss, wife of Rudolf Hoss, commandant of Auschwitz’s, and her children were not directly involved in Auschwitz’s administration. Yet, she wore luxurious fur coats stolen from murdered Jewish women. The Hösses lived a life of luxury, employing camp inmates as forced laborers and seizing items confiscated from the dead, including expensive furs, cooking supplies like sugar and flour, jewelry, and leather goods. The commandant “made his household so magnificent and so well-equipped that his wife declared, ‘Here I want to live and die,’” recalled Stanislaw Dubiel, a Pole who worked as the family’s gardener, in testimony provided after the war. 12/28/2025
The Andy Borowitz Report: Bari Weiss Declares CBS Will Have Zero Tolerance for News 12/24/2025
Andy Borowitz: PALM BEACH—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested on Sunday that Donald J. Trump offer Russia “full sovereignty” over the state of Florida. “If you are considering some kind of ‘land swap’ for peace, Florida should be on the table,” Zelenskyy said. “With Florida, you have cards.” Explaining his rationale for a Russian annexation of the Sunshine State, Zelenskyy said, “There are already so many Russian-speaking people there, especially the oligarchs and criminals around Mar-a-Lago.” Speaking from the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin said he would “consider” an offer of Florida, but only if it did not include ownership of Ron DeSantis. 12/28/2025
Marta Neely: Of course we don’t want any children to suffer because of their parents’ support for genocide. 12/27/2025
More than a quarter of Israeli families suffer from food insecurity, report finds 12/22/2025 Non-profit Latet says 2.8 million Israelis struggle to get proper nutrition, including 1.3 million children, as war and rising cost of living squeeze household income
In the sixties Bernays was asked about how the Nazis used his book "Crystallizing Public Opinion" for propaganda purposes and he expressed outrage, saying it was never intended for that purpose. However, by that time he had already provided propaganda for the CIA supporting the coup in Guatemala and the death squads that follow, hooking women on smoking, and, from the same book, promoting the "Health benefits" of Bacon! He was never any better than Hitler! 12/28/2025 Elizabeth Berry: NUTRITIONAL PROPAGANDA ABOUNDS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND MUCH OF IT WAS SET IN MOTION BY A GUY NAMED "EDWARD BERNAYS", nephew of Sigmund Freud. [I've written about his work in many of my previous posts from last year and beyond as I consider Edward Bernays as THE influencer of the 20th century. At the heart of Bernays’ philosophy was the core idea that people are not rational decision-makers. Instead, they are emotional, driven by desires, fears, and subconscious impulses more than logic or facts. If you want to influence the masses, he argued, you must appeal to those deep-seated instincts rather than trying to convince them through reason alone. Bernays was deeply inspired by the work of his uncle, Sigmund Freud. While Freud explored the hidden desires and fears that drive human behaviour, Bernays took those insights and applied them to mass communication. ...... Much more
(Video) Ian UltraLau: Smearing Palestinians to justify atrocities against them and theft of their land is racist! 12/16/2025
(Video) Jews Against Genocide: “Tested live on PaIestinians.” Leaked audio from a TeI Aviv weapons summit reveals lsraeIi arms companies are using the GENOClDE to drive record sales. Name and shame complicit Western politicians, companies and media. Public opinion is turning. More and more people ARE seeing what Israel is. #BanIsrael #BoycottIsrael #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael 12/28/2025
(Video) CloakedTruth: A big claim from Israeli intelligence whistleblower Ari Ben Menashe. Confirming connections many people have already made themselves. 10/18/2025 "Confirms Netanyahu is blackmailing President Trump and the US Government
(Video) CloakedTruth: "Your religion allows for genocide and ethnic cleansing?" "Yes" "Just to get it on record yours is the only religion that allows this." 12/09/2025
Phil Rockstroh: Zionists have attempted to teach me the following: 1) Because I am Jewish, all Palestinians clamor and scheme to have me erased from the Earth. 2) There is no such entity as the Palestinian people. Damn convenient: The people you are perpetrating a genocide upon do not exist. Damn odd: The people you are erasing — who do not exist — aim to erase you. I have been instructed — because I understand the reason for Palestinian resistance — that I am a Kapo (defined as, a Jew who gained privileges by their cooperation with their oppressors within Nazi concentration camps). 12/28/2025 Yet I am met with belligerent obtuseness, mental walls of bristling denial, when I point out, before my grandfather was arrested and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, he was a member of the anti-Nazi underground. He was, in short, a member of a resistance organization that stood in violent opposition to a nation attempting to create a highly militarized, ethno-supremacist state. Yet when I aver, Israel is exactly that, Zionist apologists snarl, “I am a Kapo.” Think this through: If my grandfather and his fellow Jewish prisoners had managed to stage an uprising against their Nazi prison keepers and an attendant prison breakout, including their resistance spilling out into the streets of Berlin, without a doubt, history would have regarded them as heroes. Yet, history as related by Third Reich Nazis, if Germany had emerged victorious in the end, would have label them as Oct 7 type of rampaging terrorists. Therefore, in memory of my grandfather, I stand in solidarity with the besieged, living in constant terror, Palestinian people, and their acts of resistance against their ethno-supremacist oppressors, the latter, the actual betrayers of Jewish resistance against state sanctioned hate. Pictured: My maternal grandfather, Heinrich Meyer, anti-Nazi resistance fighter. (Please follow the link in the comment section to my latest, posted today Substack article. My full pieces, these days, are posted at my Substack platform. Become a subscriber (for free or with a sliding scale donation according to your budget.)
Robert Rosenthal: “Israel Defense Forces” (IDF) is a highly misleading name. A huge share of its work involves running a notoriously cruel military occupation, acting as a security force for illegal and often violent Israeli settlers, and enforcing a brutal apartheid system. Miko Peled, the Israeli general’s son and peace activist, has said this is one of the best‑trained, best‑equipped, best‑fed terrorist organizations on earth. “IOF” – Israeli Occupation Force – is far more accurate. When Israeli apartheid falls, and it will, this hideous organization will have to be dismantled and replaced by something that respects human rights instead of trampling them. 12/28/2025
(Video) Andrey X Khrzhanovskiy: Israeli Air Force commander Tomer Bar is one of the deadliest mass murderers of the 21st century, directly responsible for the Gaza genocide. Anti-Zionist activists demonstrated in front of his house, calling for accountability. Here is their full speech: "Tomer Bar, we have come here to remind you that you have committed, and continue to commit, genocide against the Palestinian people, and you must be arrested and tried in every place that respects international law and basic principles of morality. To the family and neighbors of Tomer Bar: Tomer Bar does not care about 'civilian status'; He does not care about family members; He does not care about neighbours — he murders everyone! Tomer Bar, you have committed atrocities against humanity, against the Palestinian people, against the Lebanese people, against the Iranian people, against the Yemeni people, and against the entire region. You have wiped out entire families, entire cities and villages, and you are personally responsible for your crimes, in addition to the responsibility of the murderous settler-colony you serve!" 12/28/2025
Waleed Saudi: History lesson of Palestine. A. 3000–1200 BCE (Canaanites): The original Semitic-speaking inhabitants who established the region's first city-states and culture. B. 2000–1800 BCE (Prophet Abraham): Migrated from Mesopotamia to Canaan; revered as the patriarch of both the Hebrew and Arab lineages. 12/28/2025 C. 1200–586 BCE (Israelites): Established the United Kingdom of Israel and later the separate kingdoms of Israel and Judah. D- 586 BCE most Israelites lived everywhere in different countries. E. Throughout all these years Canaanites and their descendants (the Palestinians) never left the land, some of them became Christians and many became Muslims and they adopted the Arabic language and culture gradually. So Palestinians are considered Arabs through language and culture but their race and ethnicity is Canaanites. F. 1948 (Modern Statehood): Following the British Mandate and the UN Partition Plan, the State of Israel was established on half of the Palestinian land even though they owned only 6% of the land but England and America forced the UN to reward them half of the land after they ethnically cleansed the native Palestinians (the descendants of Canaanites) out of their land through their heavily armed militias by killing and mass disposition of the native Palestinians. Now the excuse of Israelis where there 3000 years ago is meaningless since the ancestors of the Palestinians (Canaanites) where their before the jews migrated to Canaan (ancient Palestine)
Israeli teen behind 591 bomb threats to Australian schools, police allege 04/27/2017 The calls were linked to the evacuation of more than 20 schools at the start of the 2016 school year
US-Israeli teen convicted of threats against Jewish centres 06/28/2018 A court in Israel has convicted a 19-year-old American-Israeli man of making hundreds of threats to bomb or attack Jewish schools and community centres.
(Video) Ana Kasparian and Kim Iverson "People loath the people committing genocide with our money, not because they're Jewish." They don't loath Jews not supporting genocide. 12/29/2025
(Video) The New Arab: Israeli police dispersed and detained ultra-Orthodox Jews on Sunday for blocking a road during a protest against conscription into the Israeli army in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv. 12/29/2025
(Video) Ian UltraLau: Israel's recognition of Somaliland and why it matters. 12/27/2025 It may be so they can expel Palestinians to Somaliland.
(Video) Peter Beinart: The Palestine exception to free speech rarely ends with Palestine. It certainly didn’t for Bari Weiss. This is 3 minutes of a 9-minute video you can see (for free) on my Substack: 12/29/2025
(Video) Peter Beinart: The Palestine Exception to Free Speech Rarely Ends with Palestine 12/29/2025 Bari Weiss pulls a 60 Minutes report on Trump administration deportations to El Salvador. Donald Trump has reportedly said he expects better treatment by CBS now that David Ellenson and Weiss are in charge. Weiss’ Free Press co-hosted a Trump administration inauguration party with Elon Musk’s X.
AJ+: Israel has attacked territories more than any other country in the world in 2025. Here are all the countries Israel targeted this year. 12/29/2025
Elizabeth Berry: So true. Israel is no friend of anyone but a Zionist, not even other Jews. Ask Max Blumenthal or Katie Haper. Both of whom and Jews and both of whom oppose Zionism. 12/29/2025
Democracy Now!: Israel says it is suspending the operating licenses of Doctors Without Borders and over two dozen other aid groups in Gaza beginning January 1 over alleged ties to Hamas. Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), said in a statement that "Any reduction in humanitarian assistance in Gaza would be a disaster," putting hundreds of thousands of people's lives at risk. 12/30/2025
(Video) Katie Halper: Russell Dobular of @duedissidence joins me to revisit how Bari Weiss promoted antisemitism allegations at Columbia and the campaign to fire Palestinian professors. 12/29/2025
(Video) Katie Halper: Bari Weiss Tried to Get Palestinian Professor FIRED 12/29/2025
(Video) Gaza Tribunal: “The corporate Western media spread the lie that Hamas engaged in a mass systematic campaign of rape and sexual assault on October 7th. This same media ignored the documented mass systematic campaign of rape and sexual assault engaged in by Israel against Palestinians.” From the expert testimony of Katie Halper on “Media Complicity”at Gaza Tribunal Final Session. Full speech is on our YouTube channel, link in bio! #GazaTribunal #KatieHalper #MediaComplicity 12/30/2025
(Video) AJ+: These Israeli teens are going to prison instead of joining an army they say is committing genocide. 07/26/2025
Only alternative media outlets are covering this. 12/30/2025 AIPAC Tracker: Anna Liedtke is a 25-year-old German journalist who was raped by Israeli prison guards this year. She was detained after Israel illegally intercepted her Freedom Flotilla ship in international waters. She was held for five days, transferred between multiple prisons, and r*ped during one of those transfers. Her story is not an isolated incident. It adds to growing evidence of systematic sexual abuse in Israeli detention facilities. And the Western media has been silent. This is what AIPAC-funded politicians are paying for with your tax dollars: $3.3 billion a year in unconditional military aid that funds prisons where journalists are abused. Track AIPAC isn’t going to stay quiet. If you want to directly support press freedom, consider donating to the Committee to Protect Journalists, which defends journalists’ right to report safely and without fear of reprisal:
German journalist says Israeli forces raped her after abducting her from Freedom Coalition Flotilla 12/28/2025
The North Star with Shaun King: 🚨 A Respected German Journalist Was Raped in Israeli Custody — Wild How Little Germany, the Western Press, and Hillary Clinton Seem to Care. 12/27/2025 Anna Liedtke says it happened during strip searches after Israel seized a Gaza-bound aid ship. This demands an independent investigation.
Jewish Voice for Peace: For the past 2 years, a widely debunked NYT article was used as propaganda by our government to justify its support of Israeli genocide in Gaza. A genocide that, despite a “ceasefire,” is ongoing. On December 28, 2023, the New York Times published a front-page report claiming to present definitive evidence about a campaign of widespread sexual violence against Israeli women. No such evidence existed. Objections to the article were widespread: From internal dissent at the NYT, to critiques by professors of journalism, to the objections by families in the article. It’s clear the article provided manufactured propaganda. In spite of being roundly debunked, the article became and remains a key tool to justify the US-backed Israeli genocide that has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians. As Jews, we are all too familiar with how propaganda is used to dehumanize an entire people and to manufacture consent to commit atrocities against them. Over the past two years, we watched this article be repeatedly employed to help the Israeli government justify its genocide of Palestinians. Which is why it’s on us, as Jews and as people of conscience, to demand not just that our government stop funding the genocide, but also that the propaganda that enables it comes to an end. We also know that journalism and a free press are under attack by the Trump admin, billionaire owners, and authoritarian regimes around the world. In this context, it is urgent that news organizations demonstrate their commitment to the highest journalistic standards. For the Times, that begins with accountability. The New York Times must stop providing the propaganda that instigates and justifies genocide. We call for this alongside: Palestinian Youth Movement, Palestinian Feminist Collective, the Democratic Socialists of America, the Adalah Justice Project, Healthcare Workers for Palestine, Palestinian Assembly for Liberation PAL-Awda, National Students for Justice in Palestine, US Palestinian Community Network, and Writers Against the War on Gaza. Tell the New York Times No More Lies and demand that it retract the debunked and dangerous article Screams Without Words: 12/30/2025
AJ+: Israel agreed to allow aid into Gaza when it signed a ceasefire deal with Hamas in October. But it continues to restrict aid into Gaza, and it has now banned 37 international aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam. 12/30/2025
(Video) Zeteo: Trump just welcomed Netanyahu to the US for the fifth time. After Israeli soldiers & settlers killed 7 Americans in the past 2 years. Even after all that, during the meeting, Trump promised a pardon is "on its way" to Netanyahu. Netanyahu thanked Trump for everything by making him the first non-Israeli to win the "Israel Prize." @premthakk's question still stands: Who matters more? Americans or Israel? 12/30/2025
Mondoweiss: Israel is banning 25 major aid groups from Gaza starting January 1st, including Doctors Without Borders, which serves nearly half a million Palestinians with critical medical care and water. Over 1.3 million people still need urgent shelter while 740,000 face toxic flooding from collapsed sanitation systems due to Israel's bombardment. Winter rains and collapsing buildings from Israel's genocide have killed at least 20 Palestinians. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff. 12/31/2025
(Video) CODEPINK: Women For Peace: Israel’s recognition of Somaliland undermines Somalia’s sovereignty, escalates tensions in the Horn of Africa, and opens the door to using African land for war and for the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. This is illegal. It’s destabilizing. And the world must condemn it. 12/29/2025
Jews Against Genocide: What Palestinian Christians are saying: the need to reject Christian Zionism (not even wasting time trying to engage them in dialogue) stop conflating Jews and Zionism and not let this be about different faiths: 12/31/2025
Palestinian Christians’ words are tough and true 12/27/2025 ‘What is the Christian word in the face of genocide?’: new Kairos Palestine document calls for repudiation of Zionism
(Video) Peter Beinart: Although many Jews in New York support the idea of equality in the United States—their strong identification with a system of Jewish supremacy in Israel means when @zohrankmamdani advocates equality there, he seems to them an enormous threat. 11/10/2025
This Tony Greenstein "Zionism During the Holocaust" 2022? It's a great book whether it's the same guy or not, so make it goes viral! I can't link directly to it because of FB rules, but there's a free copy here: 01/02/2026 Jonathan Cook, journalist: The trial of Jewish anti-Zionist activist Tony Greenstein for speaking out against Israel's genocide in Gaza is due to start next week. The government and Israel lobby want us cowered into silence, afraid to point out British complicity in Israel's slaughter. Tony's case is an important moment to resist this all-out assault on our most fundamental rights. If you can, please contribute to his crowdfunder and attend the protest outside the court on Monday.
I Will Be In Court on January 5th - My 'Crime' is Exercising My Right to Free Speech on Palestine - Please Support My Campaign 01/02/2026
Jewish Voice for Peace: You don’t ban aid groups, unless you want people to suffer. Just this week in Mar-a-Lago, Trump met with Netanyahu and promised unconditional US support to enable the Israeli government’s ongoing genocide. The very next day, Netanyahu announced that the Israeli government is banning 37 aid groups from operating in Gaza. This ban is a death-sentence for Palestinians struggling to survive Israeli genocide, and puts hundreds of thousands of Palestinian lives in Gaza at risk. The past two years of the Israeli military’s genocide decimated all infrastructure in Gaza, destroyed the healthcare system, and imposed a man-made starvation crisis. Despite the “ceasefire,” the genocide is still killing Palestinians. Over 400 Palestinians have died since the ceasefire agreement took effect. The Israeli military continues to block sufficient essential food and shelter aid, and the crisis has only become more acute during the winter weather. At least 3 babies have died of preventable hypothermia in the past two weeks. And now, amidst a deepening crisis, the Israeli government is banning humanitarian aid groups providing essential, life-saving care. It couldn’t be more clear, this is a deliberate attempt to destroy Palestinian life in Gaza. You don’t ban aid groups unless you want people to suffer. The Israeli government’s ban on aid groups is putting into action what its leaders have been openly saying for years: The Israeli state will make life utterly unlivable for Palestinians, forcing them to choose between leaving their homes or dying from colonization and genocide. This is in line with the ultimate goals of Zionism — a political ideology that intends to create a Jewish-only state on stolen Palestinian land. Our government isn’t just supporting this, it’s paying for it with our tax dollars. And right now our military is on the ground in Gaza helping to implement this policy of ethnic cleansing. We will not let up in our struggle to put a stop to the endless money, arms, and support going from the US government to the Israeli military. Today and everyday, we demand ARMS EMBARGO NOW. 12/31/2025
The translation in this link seems to confirm it's close, and other letters from him have been critical if Israel and Zionism. When in doubt I often type up excerpts and Google them, which usually confirms or refutes them. 01/02/2026 Maureen Haley: I am looking for confirmation this is accurate. Ty Todd Jasper
Einstein's evolving vision of Zionism 06/19/1930
Phil Rockstroh: Note to Zionist apologists: It is not a good idea for Zionist true believers to equate, taking a stand against genocide as being antisemitic. We Jews are tiny in number; therefore, it is a far more propitious position to stand among the powerless and exploited of the Earth, and act as a vanguard of resistance against exploitative power, as opposed to acting as apologists for a brutal, highly militarized ethno-supremacist state, as well as Israel being deployed as a proxy force for Western imperialist agendas. (How is it possible, for a fleeting second, to believe that gentile western culture has developed a fondness for Jews?) 01/02/2026 History relates, we Jews have all too often been prey. It is not a cogent notion to believe we will be welcome for long in the dominion of predators. "The strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens … for you were strangers in the land of Egypt" (Leviticus19:34). IMO: In present day terms, the above passage of scripture, should be translated to, proffering a living amends to the Palestinian people, including a Right Of Return, and the bestowment of generous reparations for their decades of exile and suffering. The damaged soul of Judaism can be restored by the dissolution of the Zionist state and the establishment of a true democracy on the stolen ground where it once stood. Otherwise, perpetually belligerent Israel will continue to be in asylum for the criminally insane disguised as a nation. @followers. (The text above is an excerpt from a (coming soon) Substack piece. My full pieces, these days, are posted at my Substack platform. Become a subscriber (for free or with a sliding scale donation according to your budget.) (A link to my Substack platform, featuring my latest article, can be found in the comment section.)
Phil Rockstroh's Substack: "Self-Hating Jew, Kapo, What About Hamas?" Every Zionist accusation is a confession 12/31/2025
AJ+: This Palestinian Christian family’s land was stolen by Israeli settlers 6 years ago, and they’ve been fighting to get it back ever since. In this story from aljazeera.com, Monjed Jadou and Ahmad Joubran document the Kisiya family’s legal battle to reclaim their home. 12/30/2025
(Video) Censored or Deleted Post 01/04/2026
(Video) Debby Manera: Avi Shlaim "Iran has never attacked a neighbor; Israel has repeatedly attacked it's neighbors ....." 01/05/2026
AJ+: As U.S. President Trump focuses on Venezuela, the Israeli army is tightening its grip on Gaza, expanding its occupation beyond the “yellow line” agreed on in the October 2025 ceasefire deal. 01/05/2026
AJ+: Israeli forces want to demolish a football pitch that serves hundreds of Palestinian children. They say it was built without a permit. In the occupied West Bank, Israel controls planning, zoning and construction permits. It’s a system engineered to constrain Palestinian communities and everyday life. 01/01/2026
Leif Atman: ZIONISTS are desperate to equate antisemitism with anti-Zionism and have us believe that Israel and Jews are synonymous. The Zionists trolling my page insist that all Jews are Zionists, seemingly oblivious to the fact that Zionism was initially rejected by the vast majority of Jews worldwide, and that there remains many Jews today who do not accept Zionism and do not support the state of Israel. Another fact to be aware of, Christian Zionists far outnumber “Jewish Zionists” (an oxymoron as Zionism is actually the antithesis of both Jewry and Judaism). This ratio could be as high as a thirty to one. But, regardles as to the actual number, the real agenda of Evangelical Christian Zionists under the guise of supposedly “loving” Jews, and believing they’re the chosen race, is why they love them and what they believe they’ve been chosen for. This is far more sinister than most are aware. ....... Much more 01/04/2026
(Video) Zeteo: “We’re going [after] companies… that are supporting this genocide.” Javier Bardem tells Mehdi why he’s not surprised at being condemned by Hollywood executives for boycotting Israeli film companies complicit in genocide. 01/06/2026
(Video) Mehdi Hasan and Team Zeteo: EXCLUSIVE: Javier Bardem Talks to Mehdi About Genocide, AIPAC, and an Oscar-Nominated Film on Palestine 01/05/2026 Watch our interview with 'All That's Left of You' director and actor Cherien Dabis and the film's executive producer Javier Bardem. A passionate, heartfelt, and combative conversation!
Phil Rockstroh: There is an exact, troubling historical correlation between the Trump administration’s imperialist aggression against Venezuela and Israel’s perpetual crimes against humanity. Both can be traced to a Western settler-colonialist worldview possessed by a sense of insatiable entitlement, and the psychological carnage concomitant to a citizenry given to the brutality inherent to the pursuit of colonialist and/or imperialist agendas. 01/07/2026 Whether the collective mode of mind is termed Manifest Destiny or Zionist doctrine, both are manifested in the ethnic cleansing of indigenous people that can be traced back to a European belief system that insists upon its innate (White supremacy-rancid) superiority. Both the denizens of Manifest Destiny and Zionist true believers retail the Big Lie: that the people resisting their land-thieving aggression are mindless savages who, without provocation, and simply maddened by bloodlust, present an existential threat to their (forever innocent and blameless) existence. For example, unhinged, rage-frothing trolls accusations that critiques of Israel -- not anti-semitic declarations -- is "Blood Libel" (how is feeling a sense of mortification in regard to the IDF perpetration of large scale collective punishment in Gaza -- analogous to the dark fantasy that we Jews slaughtered Christian's notion of the Messiah?). How could it be, that condemnation of the Zionist state's infliction of ethnic cleansing is slander against all Jews? There has been a flurry of news about a steep rise in mental health issues among the Israeli public. The unhinged comments spewed by Zionist trolls on my comment threads appear to confirm the fact. For example the following straw-man fallacy palaver: "Phil you kapo, why do you think the world would be a better place if Israel was destroyed by hordes of caliphates?" -- a Zionist troll snarled in my pixel direction in comment thread of my Substack platform. The world would be, a bit, improved if Israel became a true democracy, established a Palestinian Right Of Return, with heartfelt amends proffered, and provided generous reparations to the Palestinian people for their 80 years of subjugation by the Zionist state. This much is true, if the ending of Israel’s ethno-supremacist status ceased to be, its leaders tried for war crimes, and the Zionist state ended its policy of ethnic cleansing and its compulsion for genocidal campaigns…that would be a mitzvah for all. As it would if the US ceased its imperial campaign in Venezuela. Withal, to the war-mongering, nationalism-maddened trolls stinking up my threads: If you believe the Trump administration's military aggression is, as you (inanely) claim, goal involves "bringing freedom and prosperity" to the Venezuelan people — not a brazen, attempted hiest of the nation’s vast oil reserves — then you are displaying the height (or nadir) of intellectual dishonesty -- if not evincing the traits of a congenital liar, possessed of fascist proclivities. (The text above is an excerpt from a (coming soon) Substack piece. My full pieces, these days, are posted at my Substack platform. Become a subscriber (for free or with a sliding scale donation according to your budget.) (A link to my Substack platform, featuring my latest article, can be found in the comment section.)
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(Video) ADAM: They’ve been trained by the IDF. 0/07/2026 BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Here is a zoomed in slowed down version of the ICE shooting.
Carlos Berberian: The U.S. Delta Force, widely regarded as one of the most elite and lethal special operations units in the world, has been involved in some of the most high-profile missions of the past decades. However, its deployment during the war on Gaza marked a stark departure from its usual narrative of success. Sent early in the conflict to actively participate in tracking captives and conducting ground operations within Gaza’s complex battlefield, the unit failed to achieve any tangible breakthrough. Despite its advanced intelligence capabilities, technology, and operational experience, Delta Force was unable to locate a single captive, exposing the limits of American military power in the face of Gaza’s resistance environment. According to multiple reports, Delta Force’s role in Gaza went beyond intelligence support or coordination and involved direct operational engagement, during which the unit reportedly suffered significant losses. Although U.S. authorities have maintained strict silence and refused to disclose details, this concealment does not negate the reality that Gaza became a costly arena even for the most elite American forces. The outcome underscores a broader truth of the war: overwhelming firepower, special forces, and technological superiority failed to break the battlefield balance in #Gaza, turning it into a zone of attrition that challenged even the most hardened military units. 01/08/2026
(Video) Jews Against Genocide: Activist and actress Juliet Stevenson: "There are 4 fully equipped mobile maternity clinics waiting to cross the border.. they're not allowed across... the Israeli govt has blocked [them].. we have to stop selling arms to Israel, we have to stop supporting that regime." 01/08/2026
(Video) Saul Staniforth: Juliet Stevenson: "There are 4 fully equipped mobile maternity clinics waiting to cross the border.. they're not allowed across... the Israeli govt has blocked [them].. we have to stop selling arms to Israel, we have to stop supporting that regime." Well said. 0/08/2026
(Video) Jerusalem "Al-Quds" is the Capital of Palestine: Wake Up America‼️Israel trains US Police, ICE, and National Guard‼️This might sound ridiculous but it is true‼️Special Interview with Lt Col Anthony Aguilar‼️Big Thanks to @InsideWithSam‼️Unity for Victory‼️ 01/08/2026
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(Video) Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: There is a moral tension that many people watching Iran right now feel but rarely hear articulated clearly: you can stand with Iranians who want dignity, economic relief, and political voice while also refusing to cheer for a foreign-engineered collapse. Iranians have lived under repression, surveillance, and economic strangulation for decades, and their demands are not abstractions they are about rent, medicine, censorship, and the daily humiliations of a closed system. Those struggles belong in the same family as Palestinian demands for freedom from siege and apartheid. Both are fights against structures that decide whose lives are disposable and whose are protected. A politics of liberation that stops at borders, or that excuses one people’s suffering because of another people’s rulers, is hollow. Solidarity has to mean believing that Iranians, like Palestinians, deserve self-determination without being turned into pawns in someone else’s war. But it is precisely here that the danger lies. A regime-change collapse in Iran would not be a neutral act of “liberation.” It would be a geopolitical windfall for outside powers that have spent decades trying to neutralize Iran as a regional counterweight. 01/11/2026
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: Iran Is Not Falling, It’s Being Pushed 01/10/2026 How Mossad, Washington, and a media war are hijacking Iran’s future.
(Video) Pissed Magistus: Iran Uprising! 01/11/2026 Not defending Iran but protesters might be inciting violence for CIA or Mossad
Leif Atman: The run-up to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize had many fearfully expecting Donald Trump to win the award. But in an unexpected twist, the Nobel Committee found an equally (un)deserving far-right lunatic: Venezuelan fascist opposition leader and number one US lackey María Corina Machado. The prize, created by an arms manufacturer and awarded by a NATO member, has long been an exercise in Western imperial hypocrisy. Past winners have included the likes of Henry Kissinger, whose crimes are too vast to enumerate, and Shimon Peres, the genocidal Zionist entity’s supposed “dove.” Barack Obama won it in 2009 and went on to launch multiple wars and massive extrajudicial assassination campaigns. Simply put, the Nobel Peace Prize is just a varnish thrown onto Western foreign policy. ....... The warm embrace of Zionism ....... Much more 01/0/2026
Nobel ‘Peace’ Prize Descends Further Into Farce With Machado Award 10/11/2025 From an elite background to an undemocratic agenda
Tina Aschenbrenner Sandoval: Years ago when I was a young, first-year teacher, a guest speaker came to my school district and spoke to the staff. She was a Holocaust survivor and talked for an hour about her experiences in Nazi Germany and the courage it took for Jews to try to escape the horrors. Because it was so long ago, I don't remember much of what she said, but I do remember her last line: "The number one question people ask me when I give these talks is how did that happen in such a great country like Germany? The answer I always give is: Because good people did nothing. That's what allowed it to happen." 01/12/2026 Immigration enforcement officers are not policemen. They are not local or state police officers. They are not sheriffs, nor troopers. Their scope of authority is very limited; their sole task is to enforce United States immigration policies. They have no authority to tell Americans to 'pull over,' 'get out of your car,' or to move their vehicle if it's parked in the middle of the street. If someone- an American- is interfering with the civil matter of these public servants' attempts to locate an undocumented person, this goes to the jurisdiction of local law enforcement. A year ago this month- and I remember it clearly because we came back to school after winter break and all of my students were scared- ICE activity began in force. I reassured the nervous children who worried about their parents' well being while they were at school that they were simply going after violent criminals. However, this very quickly changed to: anyone with a record (not necessarily violent, could be an unpaid ticket), then even more quickly, it became ANY "illegal." Now, in Minnesota- and I am sure this will spread nationwide- we have ICE agents "going door to door" demanding, "Papers, please." This brings me back to that day early in my career when I sat and listened to the tale of the Holocaust survivor who told an auditorium full of educators that what happened to Jews by the Nazis happened "Because good people did nothing." Are Americans going to accept this Nazi-like ICE terrorism? The execution of innocent American citizens and armed, masked men showing up at your door demanding proof of citizenship? It is a horrifying prospect. I hope we are courageous enough as a people to be unlike the passive good people in Nazi Germany who "did nothing."
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Billionaire donates $10K to ICE agent in deadly Minneapolis shooting 01/12/2026
(Video) Razan Rayy: Protests in Tel Aviv (Jaffa) against the genocide in Gaza and the illegal detention of 10,000 Palestinians were met with violence by Israeli police. This was yesterday. 01/12/2026
(Video) Pissed Magistus: Fires in Argentina. 01/13/2026 Israeli tourists allegedly started the fires; and coincidentally the right wing president passed a law enabling foreigners to buy land if it's impacted by fire.
AJ+: (Video) U.S. Army veteran and whistleblower Anthony Aguilar called out how Israeli oppression tactics are being imported to the U.S., including through training programs with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 01/13/2026
(Video) 🎯 Strange that organic riots needed the coordination of a foreign power, isn’t it? Isr@el’s Channel 14 is reporting that Isr@el has been arming the rioters who have been carrying shotguns and pistols and throwing firebombs. Channel 14’s coverage is pro-Net@nyahu so this story is likely to have come directly from government sources. This admission ties in with Ir@nian claims that they found Amerikan and Israeli weapons and 200kg of explosives inside seven Moss@d safe houses, and obtained recordings of Amerikans and Isr@elis giving instructions to Ir@nians. These claims are corroborated by information obtained by I@anian hacking group H@nd@l@ which explained exactly how Moss@d was recruiting Ir@nians. Isr@el’s infiltration was halted when Ir@nian intelligence took away Mossad’s ability to communicate by cutting telecommunications. It disrupted Starlink, located Starlink devices in operation, and intercepted a large shipment of Starlink devices and other spying equipment. Ir@nian hackers gained access to Moss@d’s phones and the riots fizzled out because Isr@el could no longer coordinate them. All sources can be found via byperlinked embedded comments here: Deleted or censored Tweet 01/14/2026
(Video) Zeteo: ‘I wanted to show the psychological and emotional impact of occupation.’ Palestinian-American actress and director @cheriendabis on how she translated occupation to the screen in her film ‘All That’s Left of You.’ Watch the full conversation with @bardemantarctic and Cherien Dabis at zeteo.com 01/13/2026
(Video) EXCLUSIVE: Javier Bardem Talks to Mehdi About Genocide, AIPAC, and an Oscar-Nominated Film on Palestine 01/05/2026 Watch our interview with 'All That's Left of You' director and actor Cherien Dabis and the film's executive producer Javier Bardem. A passionate, heartfelt, and combative conversation!
(Video) John Melody: Pompeo, Hachette, and the war against memory. There is a second war that always accompanies military wars. It is less visible, but often more decisive: the war over who gets to write History. And today, it is unfolding before our eyes. 1. When Mike Pompeo explains how History must be falsified. Mike Pompeo, former U.S. Secretary of State, left nothing to chance. He said it calmly, publicly: “We must make sure that history books do not talk about the victims of Gaza. The victims are the Israelis. The aggressor is Iran and Hamas.” What he is saying is not a moral opinion. It is a political instruction. He is asserting three very precise things: 01/15/2026 - Palestinians must not be recognized as victims, even when they are bombed, displaced, and starved. - All responsibility must be shifted onto Iran, erasing Israel’s colonial reality. - History books must be locked into this version so it becomes the only authorized memory. This is the exact definition of state propaganda applied to collective memory. 2. When an Israeli official says the same thing, without a mask. An Israeli official declared in Hebrew: “When Assad fell, Israel turned Syria into a desert. I hope the United States will do the same to Iran. That Iran will become history.” This is: •a project of regional destruction. •openly stated. •planned. •and claimed. And yet this logic is erased from the Western narrative. Why? Because the history being prepared is not the history of peoples, but the history of powers. 3. Hachette: when a publisher becomes a battlefield. French school textbooks used the word “colonists” to describe Israelis living in occupied territories. That word is not activist language. It is a legal and historical term. It refers to civilians settled by a state in conquered, occupied, or annexed territories. It is neither an insult nor an opinion. It is an international legal qualification recognized by: •the United Nations. •the International Court of Justice. •international humanitarian law. But under political and communal pressure, Hachette: •withdraws the books. •apologizes. •launches an “internal investigation.” •promises to “correct” them. In other words: A true word is erased because it disturbs an allied power. That is exactly what Pompeo demanded. 4. The common thread: preventing colonization from being named. Remove the word colonist, and everything changes. The Israeli civilians killed on October 7 become: “innocent victims attacked by barbarians.” Whereas legally and historically, many of them were: civilians living on occupied land as part of a colonial process. That does not justify their deaths. But it radically changes the framework of the conflict. You are not killing the same thing: •in a colonial war. •as in a war between states. That is why the word must disappear. 5. What they are trying to produce: a falsified memory. The goal is simple: •erase colonization. •erase occupation. •erase Gaza as a victim. •erase international law. •turn a colonial conflict into a “war on terror.” And write this into schoolbooks for tomorrow’s children. What Pompeo demands. What Hachette enacts. What Israeli officials openly call for. We are not facing a war of images. We are facing a war against human memory. Because if you win the right to write History: •you win the right to bomb without being a criminal. •you win the right to colonize without being a colonizer. •you win the right to kill without victims. When a school publisher censors a word, and a former Secretary of State dictates what history books must say, and leaders call for entire countries to be reduced to rubble, this is not an accident. It is an architecture of domination.
(Video) Ken O'Keefe: “We (jews) need to make sure the story is written properly, so that when the history books write this, they won’t write about the victims of Gaza.” *applause* 01/14/2026
(Video) Joseph DePice: @illeshamarie Alan Rickman brought Palestine to the stage 20 years ago. His play “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” was pulled after political pressure, & he was silenced. Who else stood for Palestine decades ago? #alanrickman #hollywood #rachelcorrie #film #celebritynews 01/14/2026
(Video) Debby Manera: "Slave patrols say this is exactly us" 🧐 #UncomfortableTruths 01/13/2026 ICE is more like Slave Patrols than the Gestapo
(Video) Mike Efin Brown: Time for the 2a advocates to flex their rights. 01/15/2026 Well Armed Modern Black Panther Party
Dolores Peers: Israel’s Channel 14 is reporting that Israel has been arming the rioters who have been carrying shotguns and pistols and throwing firebombs. This admission ties in with Iranian claims that they found American and Israeli weapons and 200kg of explosives inside seven Mossad safe houses, and obtained recordings of Americans and Israelis giving instructions to Iranians. These claims are corroborated by information obtained by Iranian hacking group Handala which explained exactly how Mossad was recruiting Iranians. If there was any doubt about the veracity of this story, Mossad has been using its Farsi Twitter account to encourage Iranians to get out onto the streets. And it is bragging about having agents alongside the rioters in the field. - Councilestatemedia. Link in comments ⬇️ 01/14/2026
Israeli media is now admitting the rioters in Iran were armed with Israeli weapons 01/14/2026 Israel’s Channel 14 is reporting that Israel has been arming the rioters who have been carrying shotguns and pistols and throwing firebombs. Channel 14’s coverage is pro-Netanyahu so this story is likely to have come directly from government sources. https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/israeli-media-is-now-admitting-the
(Video) The Daily Show: Jon Stewart can’t ignore the irony of Trump threatening to bomb Iran for shooting protesters 01/13/2026 [Spoof of teleprompter script cues that aren't supposed to be read like George H.W. Bush's "Message We care."]
(Video) Nazeem Hussain: Jokes about Israel. Since you asked for it! This has been going viral again. Top 5 posts of 2025! #comedyreels #standupcomedy #comedy #nazeemhussain #jokes 12/31/2025
(Video) John Melody: Jonathan Greenblatt admits they monitor critics of Israel, who they accuse of being "antisemites" or "extremists," citing some of the more extreme ones, trying to make all look like extermists, and report them to the FBI. 01/16/2026
(Video) "It took a long time to understand that I was born into apartheid." Yuli Novak, Executive Director of @btselem — the first major Israeli human rights organization to label Israel’s destruction of Gaza a genocide — speaks with @simonerzim about growing up under Israel’s apartheid regime. Watch the full episode of @beyond.israelism with Yuli exclusively on Zeteo.com, or tap the link in bio. 01/15/2026
Muslim: U.S. ICE agents receive training and military tactics from the IDF in Tel Aviv. According to the organisations Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Researching the American-Israeli Alliance (RAIA), one common theme shared between United States and Israel is the exchange of tactics and expertise in state violence, which has been ongoing for over 18 years. Source - @aljazeeraenglish 01/13/2026
(Video) John Melody: Glen Greenwald on how Tony Dokoupil accused Ta Nehisi Coates of being a terrorist 01/16/2026
EXCLUSIVE: CBS Staffers Escalate Criticism of Tony Dokoupil's Hostility on Palestine 10/09/2024 The anchor admitted to violating the network’s standards and practices but defended his aggressive questioning of Ta-Nehisi Coates, insiders say.
(Video) George Galloway: Trump is taking us to the eve of destruction #georgegalloway #donaldtrump #moats #war #russia #china #vietnam #iran @MoatsTV 07/29/2025 In Gaza, Iran, Russia, Venezuela etc.
Coleen Rowley: Great expose by Alan Macleod about the CIA-aligned NGOs orchestrating all these "color revolution type regime change operations" in countries where the U.S. seeks to topple their governments and install American puppets. I always have a hard time understanding how so many people fall for the blatant lies that virtue-signaling U.S. leaders like Trump but politicians of both parties spew to violently gain control and/or conquer foreign territory? How can anyone believe that old lie that the U.S. bombs places and kills millions of foreign people to bring them human rights, "democracy" and "peace?!" 01/16/2026
Revealed: The CIA-Backed Think Tanks Fueling The Iran Protests 01/16/2026 One of these groups is Human Rights Activists In Iran, frequently referred to as HRA or HRAI in the media. The group, and its media arm, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) have become the go-to group of experts for Western media, and are the source of many of the most inflammatory claims and shockingly high casualty figures reported in the press. In the past week alone, their assertions have provided much of the basis for stories in CNN, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, ABC News, Sky News, and The New York Post, among others. And in a passionate plea for leftists to support the protests, Owen Jones wrote in The Guardian Tuesday that HRAI are a “respected” group whose death toll proclamations are “probably significant underestimates.” Yet what none of these reports mention is that Human Rights Activists In Iran is bankrolled by the Central Intelligence Agency, through its cutout organization, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
(Video) Jbaggio62: Time is changing and masks are falling….. 01/16/2026 John Mearsheimer on how Israel is being exposed and their atrocities are undeniable, therefore they resport to personal attacks and smears, which are rapidly being exposed.
(Video) John Melody: ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt says every anti-Semitism complaint filed with the ADL is now immediately scanned by their "AI systems" to see if there's a "litigation opportunity" they can forward to their network of some "50,000 lawyers." "Last year, in partnership with Gibson Dunn, we created something called the Legal Action Network," Greenblatt tells a gathering at a synagogue in LA. "We've assembled 50 of the top law firms in the US to create a pro bono coterie of literally like 50,000 lawyers." "And so now when you enter in an incident at ADL, it instantly gets evaluated by our AI systems. Is there a litigation opportunity? And we feed it to the lawyers to evaluate and to find someone to take the case." 01/17/2026
(Video) Chris Menahan 🇺🇸: ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt says every anti-Semitism complaint filed with the ADL is now immediately scanned by their "AI systems" to see if there's a "litigation opportunity" they can forward to their network of some "50,000 lawyers." ..... 01/15/2026
Zachary Foster: A brief history of Israel's support for apartheid, atrocities, war crimes & genocide around the world. A 🧵 In the 1970s & 80s, Israel was one of the main arms suppliers 11/18/2025 Nine sources, including articles and books. XXXXXXX
Robert Rosenthal: Bari Weiss said Zionism is “the belief in the Jewish right to self‑determination somewhere in our historic homeland between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.” That feel‑good definition leaves out what Zionism has meant in practice: ethnic cleansing, ghettoization, erasure, endless occupation, apartheid, and now, genocide in Gaza. In my newest essay, “Is Zionism Racism?”, I break down Weiss’s definition, show what it conceals, and answer a question the UN took up half a century ago: was it right to call Zionism a form of racism? Read “Is Zionism Racism?” in The Progressive Jew at the link below. If you find it valuable, take a free subscription and share it. Now read in 88 countries, The Progressive Jew is for people of all faiths, and of none. 01/15/2026
The Progressive Jew Robert Rosenthal: Is Zionism Racism? 01/11/2026 A “Jewish State” With Unequal Rights
(Video) CODEPINK: Women For Peace: From her decades of support from the United States to her repeated calls for violence against other Venezuelans, there's a lot more to Maria Corina Machado than meets the eye. CODEPINK's Latin America team breaks down the truth about Machado. 01/16/2026
(Video) Ian UltraLau: Palantir and Alex Karp developing surveilance tools for ICE or critics of Israel and other opponents of human rights groups 01/17/2026 "I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us."
(Video) Zeteo: “You cannot be a liberal ethnic cleanser… you cannot be a socialist genocider.” Israeli historian Ilan Pappé on the oxymoron, ‘Liberal Zionist’ and how Israel has made a Jewish, democratic state impossible. Watch the full conversation at zeteo.com, link in bio. 10/31/2025
(Video) Zeteo: Is Zionism Collapsing? Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé on the Potential End of an Ideology 10/30/2025
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(Video) In addition to the evidence provided by Avi Shlaim they began planning the Nakba more than fifty years before showing they intended to steal Palestinian land even before the Holocaust. 01/18/2026 Some of what Camie Davis says sounds good, and I intend to take a closer look, but I'm skeptical about her matching Avi Shlaims expertise. She previously wrote a short book about Israel when she was still a Zionist which is not currently available at all, that I can find. I hope the excerpts I find from Amazon are better, and if so I'll let you know and possibly order this book. Edit 4 hours later: I read the available free excerpts and they were better than I expected, although I was familiar with most of it. The first chapter describes accurate information that mostly went viral over the past couple years. The second chapter describes some historical events leading up to this, which most people may not be familiar with. This is a very good start, and I'll probably order the book. One thing that made it hard to believe is her total about face and her claim that she made it her self declared mission to read up on the subject, which seemed hard to believe, except, well um, it's almost what I did. Don't get me wrong, I was never a Zionist, at least not after I understood what it was; but before Oct. 7 I read only a few books about Israel, perhaps half a dozen, at most. After Oct. 7 I read almost exclusively books about Israel for over a year, and more after that. But perhaps the most import aspect about her writing is who she appeals to, as a former Evangelical Christian Zionist she might convince more people than I could, especially those she previously preached to, or at least I hope so.
(Video) Zeteo: “There’s a lot of nefarious actors and people who don’t like what we’re doing...” The duo behind Track AIPAC, Casey Kennedy and Cory Archibald, explain how they have faced multiple threats and attacks from AIPAC allies across social media. 01/18/2026
(Video) Zeteo: Meet AIPAC’s Nightmare 01/18/2026 The founders of Track AIPAC join Mehdi to discuss going up against one of the country’s most influential lobbies. As AIPAC gears up to push some of the most pro-Israel candidates it could find for this year’s mid-term elections, the founders behind ‘Track AIPAC,’ a tracker that follows where the lobby’s money goes and to whom, are rolling up their sleeves and readying for battle.
(Video) CloakedTruth: Miriam Adelson was born in Palestine. 01/07/2026 Sheldon was an American but said he regrets serving the US military instead of the IDF
(Video) Councilmember Kshama Sawant: The reason that the Democratic Party politicians have completely failed to fight against Trump is that they also represent the same agenda of Wall Street and war. Local politicians are no different, because they represent the same party and the same agenda. There are no Republicans on the Seattle City Council. During my decade as the lone independent socialist in City Hall, this meant that it was the Democratic Party politicians who opposed our movements at every step of the way to protect the interests of big business and the corporate landlords. 01/19/2026 By using my office to build working-class movements, my fellow revolutionary socialists and I were able to defeat big business and their political servants in the Democratic Party time and time again. We overcame their opposition and won historic victories like the nation’s highest minimum wage, the Amazon Tax, landmark renters’ rights, and important protections for immigrants and peaceful protestors. Many of our victories began with one lone vote in favor — mine — and eight opposed. Yet with a fighting strategy, including class struggle tactics like our public comment actions, our socialist leadership decisively shifted the balance of power in City Hall and delivered huge gains for the working class. We need that same fighting strategy nationally to defeat Trump’s and the Democrats’ attacks on immigrants and peaceful protestors, to end the genocide in Gaza, and to go on the offensive for national rent control and free healthcare for all paid for by taxing the rich. That is why I am running to become the first revolutionary socialist elected to U.S. Congress. If elected, I have pledged to turn my inauguration into a rally of 10,000 people in Washington, D.C., to launch mass movements to end US military aid to Israel, win free healthcare, and shut down ICE. We have a fighting chance at defeating 29-year warmongering Democratic Congressman Adam Smith, who voted to create ICE and is a faithful servant of U.S. imperialism. We have a chance to turn politics upside down in Washington D.C. and launch national mass movements. But we need you to get involved to help build a powerful national movement. Sign up today to donate and volunteer at kshamasawant.org.
Carlos Berberian: Now Americans are feeling like Palestinians, Soon Australians, Canadians and Europeans, We all saw the reactions in the streets of America after shooting a woman in her face and blocking the Ambulance to reach her, typical IDF tactics in the West Bank since 1967... After the George Floyd incident and Based on reports from 2018 and subsequent campaigns, several U.S. police departments and entities have cancelled or stopped their participation in training programs in Israel, often under pressure from local, anti-racism, or anti-police brutality groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace... 01/20/2026
Robert Rosenthal: Israeli leaders have a long, documented record of racism. A decade before the Nakba, David Ben‑Gurion – Israel’s founding prime minister – wrote to his son about plans to expel Palestinians. In my newest piece, “Is Zionism Racism?”, I quote that letter directly, bring in other racist statements from Israeli leaders, lay out the polling data, and connect it to my own journey from Zionist to anti‑Zionist Jew. Read the post in The Progressive Jew at the link below. If it hits you, subscribe for free and share it. Now read in 84 countries, The Progressive Jew is for people of all faiths, and of none, who refuse to look away. 01/13/2026
Robert Rosenthal The Progressive Jew: Is Zionism Racism? 01/0/2026 David Ben‑Gurion, Israel’s founding prime minister, wrote in a letter to his son: “We must expel the Arabs and take their place … and if we have to use force… then we have force at our disposal.”
Ben Gurion: letter to his son, October 5, 1937 10/05/1937 These three fundamental truths will be reinforced by the existence of a Jewish state in a part of the country, just as Zionism will be reinforced by every conquest, large or small, every school, every factory, every Jewish ship, etc. ...... We must expel Arabs and take their place. Up to now, all our aspirations have been based on an assumption – one that has been vindicated throughout our activities in the country. – that there is enough room in the land for the Arabs and ourselves. But if we are compelled to use force – not in order to dispossess the Arabs of the Negev or Transjordan, but in order to guarantee our right to settle there – our force will enable us to do so. Clearly in such event we will have to deal not only with the Arabs living in Eretz Israel, since it is very probable that Arabs from the neighboring countries will come to their aid. But our power will be greater, not only because we will be better organized and equipped, but also because behind us stands a force still greater in quantity and quality. This is the reservoir of the millions in the Diaspora.
(Video) The Young Turks: Yair Netanyahu Gets EXPOSED By Ana And Cenk 08/25/2025 "If you think Benjamin Netanyahu is terrible you're absolutely right, but wait until you hear about his son." Yair was kicked off Facebook for anti-Muslim racist comments etc.
(Video) Why is anyone paying attention to this guy? If he has "followers" can you count them on one hand? 01/20/2026 LeaAnn Duncan: Max Blumenthal: Reza Pahlavi promised his followers they were fighting “the final battle” as they rioted across #Iran Now that the mayhem is over, he’s calling on the US and #Israel to bomb the country he fled with millions in stolen riches. A display of desperation
Google AI confirms some of these claims but denies she works for the CIA, admitting Iran made this claim, but accepting her denial. Anyone familiar with the CIA might be skeptical of this denial, and at best consider it inconclusive. And Max Blumenthal obviously disagrees. 01/20/2026 Joaquim de Almeida: Masih Alinejad, who was invited by the U.S. delegation at the U.N. to testify on behalf of the "Iranian civil society" at the U.N. security council meeting is: A paid U.S. government contractor. Masih Alinejad received $830,000 directly from the US government from 2015 to 2025 for propaganda projects against Iran. Masih Alinejad lives in Washington and works for the CIA. An April 20, 2009 State Dept cable identified Masih Alinejad as a US intel asset. Since leaving Iran, she has been campaigning for a US-Israeli war on her former country on the US taxpayer dime. Masih Alinejad works for the US propaganda network Voice of America. The US pays her to foment regime change in Iran.
(Video) Max Blumenthal: An April 20, 2009 State Dept cable identified Masih Alinejad as a US intel asset. Since leaving Iran, she has been campaigning for a US-Israeli war on her former country on the US taxpayer dime 01/15/2026 Mario Nawfal: 🚨🇮🇷 IRANIAN WOMAN TO UN: I SURVIVED 3 ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS BY THIS REGIME. Iranian activist Masih Alinejad looked the regime’s UN rep dead in the face and said Khamenei tried to have her killed. 3 times! “I’ve seen my assassin with my own eyes. He was outside my house in Brooklyn.” Her “crime”? Speaking up for people the regime murdered. She says the only reason she’s alive is because U.S. law enforcement stopped the hit. And she’s not done talking.
(Video) James Rivers: This is wild. But not surprising. 01/20/2026 U.S. to send an additional $3.3 billion to Israel etc.
(Video) Zeteo: “The pro-Israel lobbyists wanted me to step away from the microphone… And what they inadvertently did was hand me a larger microphone.” Antoinette Lattouf, a journalist fired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation over an anti-genocide tweet, speaks with Mehdi. 01/19/2026
(Video) Zeteo: How Australia’s Pro-Israel Lobby Was Exposed 01/19/2026 They attacked Antoinette Lattouf and cost her her job. But she fought back and won. Here’s how.
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(Video) JulesNader386: Jasmine Crockett calls criticism of her Pro-Israel stances "intellectually lazy" and asks for people to look at her voting record. Well she has voted to cut UNRWA and to arm Israel, along with voting YES on the following Pro-Israel HRs. HR 771 HR 340 HR 1449 HR 5917 HR 798 12/11/2025
(Video) Krystal Ball: Beyond parody 12/11/2025 Chris Menahan 🇺🇸: US Amb. Mike Huckabee: Israel did not "attack" Qatar—they just "sent a missile" into their country aimed at "one person." "Unfortunately, there were some people who were near that missile strike that were injured or killed from it…"
(Video) The Resonance: “Did you know that the British military have been secretly flying spy planes over Gaza for the duration of the genocide in order to send that intelligence to the Israeli military?” 12/12/2025
(Video) The Resonance: Q: “Should Israel Nuke Gaza?” 🇮🇱: “Definately, Yes” Q: “Why?” 🇮🇱: “ Because all the problems will be solved” Q: “Including children & women?” 🇮🇱: “Yes... I know we're much more moral than They are” 12/12/2025
(Video) The Tennessee Holler: “The world’s 7 richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what 🌎 sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.” 12/11/2025
The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons 11/25/2025 Trump loyalist and CIA contractor Larry Ellison’s purchase of CNN appears imminent, and marks the latest venture into media for the world’s second-richest individual. ..... Immediately upon being appointed CEO of CBS News, Larry’s son, David, began drastically reorientating the network’s political outlook, firing staff, pushing it to become pro-Trump, and appointing self-described “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss as its editor-in-chief. (Several of them are Jewish, and, Jewish or not, they're all biased in favor of Zionism.)
(Video) Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚: SCUM ISRAELI 🇮🇱FOOTBALL FANS‼️ Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters in Stuttgart chanting: "You are the Arab whores. We will f**k you, and drink your blood, we will r*pe your girls." BAN THEM FROM PLAYING ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD 12/11/2025
(Video) Abier: God, I’m obsessed with this. Francesca is telling Tucker everything I’ve been dying for him to hear. She exposed Google, Amazon, Microsoft, the whole crew. 12/11/2025
(Video) System Update: The ADL's CEO claimed that "every Jewish person is a Zionist" which is odd because we've interviewed Orthodox Jews on our show who strongly oppose Zionism. @ggreenwald on Jonathan Greenblatt's insulting and reductive remarks about anti-Zionist Jews: 12/12/2025
Max Blumenthal: Being thoroughly exposed as one of Epstein’s closest friends and business partners didn’t interfere with Ehud Barak’s invitation to the NY Times recent Dealbook Summit. (He’s beside Sam Power & Sen. Chris Coons - who had @aaronjmate thrown off Amtrak for asking him about Gaza) 12/12/2025 Press TV 🔻: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who had a very close relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, appears in the new series of photos released by House Oversight Democrats.
(Video) The Resonance: A Pro-Israel woman hits a man wearing a keffiyeh and shouts, “Fake, Fake Genocide—there's no such thing as Palestine.” A passerby witnesses this and confronts her, saying, “You're acting like the apartheid state you support. You're not the victim here; you're just a bully.” 12/12/2025
Assal Rad: It’s not a natural disaster, there are thousands of trucks with winter aid waiting to enter Gaza. Israel is deliberately making life impossible for Palestinians, report it. 12/12/2025
(Video) Drop Site: 💡NEW: ICC prosecutor Karim Khan says Britain threatened to cut funding and leave the Rome Statute if the court pursued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Guardian reports. In a filing defending his decision, Khan added that a senior British official argued the warrants for Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant were disproportionate. He also described pressure from US officials, including warnings of “disastrous consequences.” Khan said the plan to issue warrants long predated sexual misconduct allegations that later surfaced, which he argues were weaponized to undermine him. He added that his case preparation was meticulous and based on expert legal review, not personal interest. The full report from the Guardian is linked below 👇 12/11/2025
Britain threatened to defund ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrant, claims prosecutor 12/11/2025 Karim Khan makes allegation in court submission while defending move to prosecute Israeli prime minister in 2024
Eli Valley: Fascist activist Bari Weiss is doing what her billionaire benefactors recruited her for: to turn CBS News into an ongoing infomercial for Hitler Youth. 12/12/2025
(Video) PalMedia: Tucker Carlson is a 100% on point: “In no fair system, in no ‘meritocracy’ would Bari Weiss rise above secretary and I mean that. There is no world in which Bari Weiss would rise to the top of a news network except a rigged world.” 12/11/2025
(Video) CODEPINK: Outside CBS in Studio City, California to deliver two petitions: One demanding CBS drop Bari Weiss as head of news. The other demanding 60 Minutes stop serving as a platform for war propaganda and return to real journalism. Genocide denial and fear-mongering about China and Venezuela have no place in a newsroom. CBS holds a public license, the public deserves the truth. 12/12/2025
Ben Norton: When I say the US is a crazy rogue state, I'm not exaggerating. Look at US votes at the UN: The US constantly votes against the entire world. This vote on protecting UN personnel was 153 to 1. The US empire, which wages nonstop war, is one of the main obstacles to world peace. 12/12/2025 Israel, Russia, North Korea and three small countries abstained.
(Video) The Resonance: Dave Smith: “Barry Weiss & Ben Shapiro & Alan Dershowitz & Mike Huckabee, their number one priority is Israel. NOT US” Scott Horton: “Look at Ted Cruz. He told the overriding reason he ran for the Senate in the first place was to represent the interests of Israel.” 12/13/2025
Alan MacLeod: The United Nations has just voted 153-1 on a resolution ensuring the safety and security of humanitarian workers and UN personnel across the globe. The only country voting against? The United States 🇺🇸. 12/13/2025 Israel, Russia, North Korea and three small countries abstained.
Sabby Sabs: The new candidate running against Ritchie Torres attended an AIPAC event DURING the Gaza genocide. This post from Amanda was in November 2023. Don’t be fooled folks! 12/1/2025
(Video) ADAM: “We created Al-Qaeda.” — Hillary Clinton, 2011 12/12/2025
Max Blumenthal: More than half the names on Ottawa’s “Victims of Communism” memorial belong to Ukrainian and Baltic Nazis. They include one Nazi who executed 350 Latvian Jews. The Canadian public was forced to pay $6 million to build this tribute to fascist collaborators. 6 million! 12/11/2025 David Pugliese: The controversial Victims of Communism memorial in downtown Ottawa will no longer feature the names of specific individuals after federal officials determined a significant number could be linked to the Nazis.
Government retreats on Victims of Communism memorial names in aftermath of Nazi controversy 12/11/2025 As the controversial monument approaches its first anniversary, the Department of Canadian Heritage has reversed course on the names originally meant to be inscribed on it. .... The Ottawa Citizen reported in 2024 that the Department of Canadian Heritage was told by historians that more than half of the 550 names to be inscribed on the Memorial to the Victims of Communism should be removed. The reason was because of potential links to the Nazis or questions about affiliations with fascist groups.
(Video) Nadira Ali🇵🇸: They feel so big and strong taking on this elderly couple and women.. STEALING THEIR HOME AND LAND. 12/13/2025
(Video) Irlandarra: Red Lion pub in Central London. lady kicked out of the Pub for wearing a Palestinian badge 12/12/2025
(Video) The Resonance: This video is 36 years old. Israel Never Treated Palestinians Like Humans 12/13/2025
(Video) Ryan Rozbiani: See, Israel does not want the west to know there are Christians in Palestine. The Bethlehem tree lighting went viral online so they censored and forced the them to cancel the Nazareth tree lighting ceremony. 12/13/2025 Western Media is Hiding This. 🎄 For the first time in two years, Christmas will be celebrated inside Gaza’s only Catholic church. Yes, there are Catholics in Gaza who practice their religion freely.
ADAM: Brown University and Bondi beach, on the same day? 🤔 12/14/2025
Candace Owens: They have been signaling that a 9/11 style attack is coming the second week of December. Save this tweet. It will age well. 11/27/2025
(Video) Ryan Rozbiani: 🚨 BREAKING: UPDATE ON HERO WHO STOPPED BONDI BEACH SHOOTER. An update on Ahmad from his cousin. Ahmad Al-Ahmad, who stopped one of the shooters at Bondi Beach, IS A hero. He sustained two gunshot wounds. I pray him and all the victims recover. 12/14/2025 Why is X censoring the ONE POST that has the name of the HERO who stopped one of the shooters? HIS NAME IS AHMAD EL AHMAD
Suppressed News: ⚡️🇦🇺JUST IN: Arsen Ostrovsky, one of the Zionists who spent the past two years justifying Israel’s warcrimes and supporting Israel’s actions, was injured in today’s attack at Bondi beach, Australia. He tried to justify Israel wiping out hospitals in Gaza following Oct 7th. 12/14/2025
(Video) ADAM: “In 37 American states it is a requirement if you want a contract with the state, that you have to sign a loyalty oath saying you do not support and & never participated in a boycott of Israel.” — Glenn Greenwald exposes lsraeIi influence 12/13/2025
Max Blumenthal: At approximately the same time Noam Chomsky was wagging his finger at the Palestinian-led BDS movement, he was meeting privately with Ehud Barak, among the worst war criminals in Israeli history. The meetings were brokered by Jeffrey Epstein. 04/30/2023
(Video) Sabby Sabs: And that’s why Bari Weiss wanted to do this interview. Erika was used to try to increase support for Israel. 12/14/2025 Shadow of Ezra: Erika Kirk openly declares herself an ally of Israel and says she cannot understand the level of hatred directed at the country, calling it completely sick. She says she has been to Israel twice with Charlie Kirk and suggests much of the hostility is driven by people projecting conspiracy theories onto Jewish people. "We are living in enemy occupied territory"
(Video) Briahna Joy Gray: "I saw a documentary the other day called The Voice of Hind Rajab, which was one of the most painful things I've seen since the documentaries about the mass shooting that I survived, but it's an extremely necessary watch. And hearing the real voice of a 6-year-old girl hiding among 6 corpses of her family members in a car, talking about begging the Palestine Red Crescent Society to send her an ambulance & watching the people in Red Crescent struggle to get a route approved by the state of Israel to go save this girl.And then the second they were able to do it hours too late, the Israeli army blew them up." - @camkasky 12/13/2025
(Video) Ounka: Q: “Are you still a supporter of Israel?” Chuck Fleischmann: “100%.” Q: “So you support genocide?” Fleischmann: “I love God and I love Israel.” It’s honestly embarrassing to watch someone hide behind God while endorsing genocide 12/14/2025
(Video) SilencedSirs◼️: 🎥 Israeli woman (Daniella Weiss) dares a journalist: “Go see for yourself — the road isn’t blocked.” So he does. Turns out? The road is blocked. Even with a government press card, he’s denied access. Welcome to apartheid — with PR. 🇵🇸🚧 12/13/2025
(Video) Sulaiman Ahmed: JUST IN: Australian woman completely shut down a Zionist “journalist” who tried to exploit the attack on Bondi Beach to push an agenda. 12/14/2025
Hala Jaber: Even when Israel kills a British citizen, the UK covers it up. James ‘Jim’ Henderson, a British aid worker & former Royal Marine, was killed by an Israeli drone strike in Gaza, & the UK military is still refusing to release RAF surveillance footage from that day. What are they hiding: evidence of war crimes, or proof of UK complicity? 12/12/2025 Declassified UK: James Henderson was killed in an Israeli drone strike. His father Neil told us he felt “quite angry” that RAF spy plane footage over Gaza that day has not been shown to the family. “The reason for not supplying that footage from the Ministry of Defence is a bit of an insult.”
(Video) Anyone that disagrees with corporate lies supported by Hillary should be charged? 12/14/2025 Defiant L’s: Hillary Clinton: "Americans who engage in misinformation should be civilly or criminally charged."
Margaret Kimberley: So one of the biggest propagandists on behalf of Israel just happens to be in Australia when a suspiciously timed mass shooting takes place. BTW, no need to hide the image. It’s just a guy with a bandage and for some reason no one wipes blood off his face. 12/14/2025 Arsen Ostrovsky: I lived through Oct 7th. Never imagined I’d see this horror in Australia. Bullet grazed my head. Doctors said miracle survived, but will make recovery. Tonight is 1st night of Chanukah. The forces of darkness and hate will never triumph. We will prevail. Am Yisrael Chai ✡️
(Video) SilencedSirs◼️: Rabbi Eli Schlanger was killed in the Sydney attack… Yes, the same rabbi who blessed the Israeli army during the Gaza genocide, raised funds to support it, and called for annexing West Bank settlements in the name of “security.” But suddenly? He’s a “symbol of peace” and a “pure victim.” History remembers better than propaganda-driven sympathy. 12/14/2025
Motasem A Dalloul: Palestinian hostage Sakher Zaghloul, 26, from occupied West Bank, has been declared KILLED under severe torture inside Israeli torture camps. 12/14/2025
(Video) Nadira Ali🇵🇸: IF AMERICA WAS A FREE COUNTRY WHY WOULD THEY BAN THE 2025 ACADEMY WINNER “ No other Land.” “Just minutes into the documentary, I understood why streaming it in the U.S. is BANNED and why it won” 12/13/2025
Ahmed Nashwan𓂆: Israel is a terrorist entity, this picture shouldn’t be erased from our memory. 12/08/2025
CJ Werleman: Israel looks at children being burned alive in their tents and thinks, “Hmm, there’s a marketing opportunity.” 12/08/2025
(Video) Sarah Wilkinson: This is why X froze Hebrew translations: the reactions from israelis when Trump told them to ‘stand down’ on Iran | via @SilentlySirs 11/20/2025
Aaron Maté: 15 civilians were killed in the massacre targeting Sydney's Jewish community. A day in which Israel massacres 15 Palestinian civilians in Gaza would be at the low end of the average in 2+ years of genocide. Israel's atrocities and the impunity they receive are undoubtedly the number one driver of anti-Semitism worldwide. And to show how little Israel and its apologists care about anti-Semitism, many are exploiting the Sydney massacre to justify Israel's rejection of a Palestinian state; baselessly blame Iran; and demand more censorship of anti-genocide protests. 12/15/2025
(Video) The Resonance: “Why do so many Americans support Israel?” Edward Said: Because they don't know anything about the story of the Palestinians.” (2001) 12/15/2025
(Video) Caitlin Johnstone: This is true, but it's important to understand that Israel WANTS to spread antisemitism. It has a vested interest in making sure Jews in other countries get scared of antisemitic attacks and move to Israel for protection, thereby resolving Israel's demographics problem. 12/15/2025 Double Down News: "The main cause of antisemitism in the world today is the fact that the Israeli state claims to represent all Jews and is committing a genocide in Gaza, in the name of all Jews. Israel has the Star of David on its tanks and planes whilst it is killing women and children in Gaza, it’s stirring up antisemitism all the time."
(Video) Michael Tracey: The new Nobel Peace Prize winner clarifies that the regime change she's demanding in Venezuela is not a "conventional regime change," but rather an "act of love" -- and furthermore that she's entitled to support US military intervention because Russia and Iran support Maduro 12/14/2025
Max Blumenthal: Australian police are investigating whether "overseas actors or individuals" are paying local criminals to carry out antisemitic crimes in the country. PM Albanese says antisemitic attacks are "being perpetrated by people who don't have a particular issue, aren't motivated by an ideology, but are paid actors." He added “it's unclear who or where the payments are coming from.” Australia’s Shadow Home Office minister wonders if a “foreign government is engaging in state-sponsored terror.” Would it be antisemitic to investigate a certain settler colonial country whose existence is justified by the global proliferation of antisemitism? 12/1/2025
Antisemitic crimes may be funded overseas, say Australian police 01/21/2025
(Video) BBC News fails to adequately inform on Australian organisation 01/23/2025 Camera is a Zionist organization that has a history of smearing critics of Israel, including Antony Loewenstein, a credible researcher exposing Israeli atrocities. The anti-Zionist Jewish Council of Australia – which has former Guardian contributor Antony Loewenstein on its advisory committee – rejects the widely adopted IHRA working definition of antisemitism and in September 2024 opposed proposed legislation on antisemitism. Despite being a lawyer, one of its executive officers has promoted inaccurate claims concerning the January 2024 ICJ ruling:
‘Paid actors’ could be behind some antisemitic attacks, Albanese says 01/21/2025
(Video) George Galloway: The Son of a Nazi Officer is the new president of Chile. 🇨🇱 He is a staunch friend of Israel. Go figure. 12/15/2025 HatsOff: The 2025 Chilean election delivers victory to José Antonio Kast, the son of a Nazi official, and a staunch Pinochet apologist whose platform aligns closely with Washington and Israel.
(Video) Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚: THEY SAID IT WAS THE BEST SHOW IN TOWN… Never forget that they brought popcorn and drinks, sat down in their chairs, and watched the genocide of children in Gaza. DID ANY OF THEM STOP THE MURDERERS, OR WERE THEY TOO BUSY SIGNING BOMBS? 12/15/2025
Ihab Hassan: Today, 164 countries at the United Nations voted in favor of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination. All EU member states voted yes. 12/15/2025 The United States, Israel, Argentina, Paraguay and four small countries voted against it; Equador, Panama, South Sudan and six small countries abstained.
(Video) B.M.: "Not going to keep making excuses to this occupier... Just as I'm defending my Islam from ISIS, you should defend your Judaism from Zionism. I'm going to continue to view Jews as terrorists... until they defend their religion like I defend mine." The amazingly brave Ahed Tamimi says it like it is. Zionists try to twist her words but every single word she says is truth. 12/15/2025
(Video) Any rational person understands "Never Again" should apply to everyone, including Palestinians. Dumisani Washington obviously doesn't understand this, nor does he understand that Zionists support Neo-Colonialism around the world including Africa! 12/16/2025 ADAM: A Zionist completely abandons his "pro-life" stance when it becomes about Palestinian children. They genuinely don’t see Palestinians as human.
(Video) Standing with Israel - a Defining Issue for Christians of Color, Dumisani Washington 11/24/2025
Glenn Greenwald: The GOP establishment justifies its demands to expel Nick Fuentes (and Tucker Carlson) from conservative politics on the ground that it won't tolerate bigotry or hateful extremism. That'd be less laughable if they also applied this lofty principle to those who support Israel: 12/16/2025 Tommy Tuberville: Islam is not a religion. It's a cult. Islamists aren't here to assimilate. They're here to conquer. Stop worrying about offending the pearl clutchers. We've got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we'll become the United Caliphate of America.
Glenn Greenwald: It's been darkly hilarious watching major GOP figures vilify and demand the cancellation of two podcasters, while actual GOP elected officials (like Tomerville, Randy Fine and Brandon Gill) routinely say for worse, yet there are zero demands for them to be denounced let alone expelled. (And even focusing just on popular right-wing podcasters: many, such as Matt Walsh, use white nationalistic rhetoric more virulent than Fuentes' and certainly more than Tucker's (who is not a white nationalist at all), but none of that notably bothers the Ted Cruz's or other newfound anti-bigotry warriors in establishment conservative politics seeking to purge the "haters" from their noble movement). 12/16/2025 There is one, and only one, relevant factor that distinguishes Fuentes and Tucker from all of these GOP officials and pundits in good standing when it comes to these months of hysteria: namely, their vocal criticisms of Israel, its lobby in the US, and US financing of that foreign country. That's it. If Nick Fuentes (or Tucker) said everything that they say now completely unchanged, but supported Israel or at least ignored it, there'd be no animosity or drive to expel them in GOP politics. The GOP's new petulant, self-congratulatory "anti-bigotry" campaign -- whereby they now pretend they're expelling "toxic" and "hateful" voices from their noble movement -- is just the obvious pretext to ensure that reverence for this one sacred foreign country remains the non-negotiable price of admission into conservative politics and especially the 2028 GOP primary.
(Video) ADAM: 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 remember when Lindsey Graham says he’d rather help ISRAEL than hurricane victims in South Carolina? He’s a U.S. Senator but that’s not who he serves. 12/14/2025
(Video) Mel: Everyone needs to understand that she’s not being hyperbolic. These people will do their best to DESTROY your life if you criticize Israel. Don’t believe me? One of the people recently featured on their list of antisemites is Dr. Cynthia Moffitt. Dr. Moffitt’s crime? Sharing an Al Jazeera news article on her Instagram stories that documented Palestinian bodies being returned to Gaza without their organs. StopAntisemitism said Cynthia was spread “Jew-hate” for sharing a news article about a foreign government. They tried to DESTROY this woman’s career because she shared a news article critical of a foreign government. Do you understand where we’re at right now? 12/15/2025 Chris Menahan 🇺🇸: StopAntisemitism founder Liora Rez tells Jerusalem Post conference on Capitol Hill that canceling people for criticizing Israel is the best way to fight anti-Semitism: "The results speak for themselves." "We will shine a light on you that, thanks to Google and SEO, will follow you for the rest of your life. When you look for a job, when you look for a spouse, when you look for a nanny, when you look for anything, our work will always be documented, again, thanks to Google and SEO." "Today, StopAntisemitism, I'm proud to say, runs one of the most robust anti-Semitic enforcement operations in the US, monitoring campuses, digital networks, activist groups, and public officials, documenting incidents in real time…" Rez also says she's fighting to "secure a future" where people's opinions on Jews determine whether they can have a job. "But the fight is bigger than the exposure, and it's about securing a future … A future where employers understand that anti-Semitism is not activism. It's bigotry and it will cause you to lose your job." Rez notes at the end that she's a "former refugee from the USSR."
(Video) SilencedSirs◼️: 🎙️ “I ask Jews around the world to reflect on what Netanyahu is doing Not just to Gaza, but to the Jewish people globally. He is endangering civilians and the future of Judaism. How can what was done to your ancestors… be done now, by you, to others?” – A voice of conscience the world needs to hear. 12/16/2025
(Video) Sulaiman Ahmed: Former MI5 Agent Annie Machon revealing how the Mossad setup a false flag by bombing their own Israeli embassy in London in 1994 and blamed it on Palestinian activists. 12/16/2025
(Video) Saul Staniforth: One from the archives. A Palestinian woman talked about members of her family murdered by Israel when they bombed the family home. The presenter then puts it to her that Israel say their strikes are targeted & asks this grieving woman why the home was targeted. 12/16/2025
(Video) Ounka: Israeli analyst Eliyahu Yossian: " Israel should level the ground in Gaza, kill as many as possible and spare no one, including pregnant women and children." Their society doesn't hide their genocidal intend. It debates it on air. 12/16/2025
(Video) Funny how they all forgot to mention the Gaza genocide or mass murder of children, reporters, human rights workers, theft of land & much more. 12/16/2025 Caitlin Johnstone: “Bondi Beach Is What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like” ~ Bret Stephens, New York Times. “The Intifada Comes to Bondi Beach” ~ David Frum, The Atlantic ..... Much more, long list of headlines with the same theme that clearly appears planned for propaganda purposes.
(Video) Duopoly Destroyer: One of Israel’s top propagandists, who also happens to be on Netanyahu’s legal defense team against the ICC, who also happened to “survive Oct 7th”, somehow ended up at this Hanukkah event in Bondi Beach, got “shot in the head”, and managed to survive. WHY TF ARE WE LETTING PLAY IN OUR FACES LIKE THIS?! 😂 12/16/2025
(Video) Chris Menahan 🇺🇸: Bari Weiss's much-hyped town hall interview w/ Erika Kirk "was a massive ratings flop," according to The Independent. Ratings "declined 27% in total viewership compared to the network's standard programming in that time slot year to date," they noted, citing early Nielsen data. 12/16/2025
(Video) Ryan Rozbiani: 📢🇨🇦🇮🇱 ISRAEL DENIED 30 CANDIANS ENTRY INTO THE WEST BANK, INCLUDING 6 MPs. They were each asked to sign a form acknowledging that they are a threat to public safety, but they declined. I imagine this is signed so if settlers kill them, they can't hold them accountable. MADNESS 12/16/2025
(Video) Glenn Greenwald: The US forced the sale of TikTok -- young Americans' favorite app -- to Larry Ellison, the single largest private donor to the IDF, right after his son bought CBS/Paramount. TikTok hired an "American" IDF solider as its main censor on Israel. What more do you need to see? 12/16/2025 How many leaders of pro-Israel groups need to explicitly demand that social media be more policed before people understand this is their movement's main goal? Netnayhau said the same. The TikTok ban was finally passed due to fear it was allowing too much anti-Israel content. // Chris Menahan 🇺🇸: American Jewish Committee CEO Ted Deutch embarked on a media tour in the wake of the Bondi Beach shooting to demand "bold action" to suppress "anti-Semitism" on social media.
TikTok's new hate speech manager is former IDF soldier and proud Zionist 07/30/2025 Erica Mindel's new position involves developing and driving the company’s public policy positions on hate speech, according to her job description.
(Video) Sabby Sabs: The founder of Stop Antisemitism [Liora Reznichenko] is a racist. She called representative Ilhan Omar the N word. Black ppl should never support Zionism. 12/17/2025 PVT: The demonic founder of @StopAntisemites keeps hiding her full name and this post of her calling Ilhan Omar the N word. Post this screenshot under her posts. // Red Pill Media: 🇮🇱⚡️🇺🇸 HORRIFYING Stop Antisemitism founder says that antisemites will be hunted down and destroyed. “We will follow you for the rest of your life. When you look for a job, when you look for a spouse, when you look for anything, our work will always be documented.”
(Video) The Saviour: Israeli: I wish there was a genocide in Gaza. Q:You wish there was? Israeli:Yes, I wish. Q: Did you kill Palestinians? Israeli: Unfortunately no. I'm just a driver, but if I could, I would run over every fucking Palestinian baby with my truck, man. 12/16/2025 Hamzah Saadah
(Video) Hamzah Saadah: 🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli soldier says he wants to b*mb every child in Gaza and turn it into a mall. The “most moral army in the world” k*lls children. So disgusting. 💔 06/10/2025
(Video) Hamzah Saadah: Palestinian Wakes Up Israeli Kid With Truth! Free Palestine 🇵🇸 09/16/2025
(Video) Warfare Analysis: The Israeli army forced a Palestinian family out of its home and demolished it: “The occupation army came to me this morning and told me there is an order to demolish my family home. I told them that no demolition order or court notice had been delivered to me. They said this is a military zone. I asked them, on what basis is this a military zone? My mother gave birth to me on this land. My home is 174 square meters. Twelve people lived in it, myself and my family.” - The Palestinian Samer Abdul Rahim and his family of 12 were deprived by the Israeli army of their home today in Qalandia, north of Jerusalem. 12/16/2025
(Video) Aaron Maté: The amount of media airtime wasted on BlueAnon fantasies about Putin and Russian oligarchs controlling Trump -- while ignoring pro-Israel oligarchs like Adelson -- is probably worth another $250 million for Trump: 12/16/2025 The Bulwark: Trump: "Miriam Adelson…gave my campaign, indirectly and directly, $250 million — she was number one. When someone can you $250 million, I think that we should give her the opportunity to say hello. And Miriam, make it quick, be cause $250 million is not what it used to be."
(Video) Trita Parsi: Israeli forces detained 5 Palestinian kids - at the request of Israeli settlers. Their crime? Gathering wild vegetables. The young boy who tries to save his friend at 0:15 shows more courage than the entire international community. Shame on all of us. (per @RamAbdu) 12/17/2025
(Video) Glenn Greenwald: In case you think there's no connection between someone keeping their job at CBS News in the Ellison and Weiss era, and their willingness to serve Israel: 12/16/2025 Zaid Jilani: A CBS News staffer was going to be laid off but then wrote to Bari Weiss about how much he loves Israel so she spared him. If someone wrote this as satire for the onion they’d tell the writer it was too on the nose. // Glenn Greenwald: Every CBS News employee knows they work for the Ellison family -- whose patriarch is the largest-ever private donor to the IDF -- and for Bari Weiss, whose whole life is devoted to Israel. This is like state TV for Israel: demanding IHRA censorship in the US for Israel. Chris Menahan 🇺🇸: Pro-Israel activist Noa Tishby calls for "strong action" against anti-Semitism on Bari Weiss's CBS News. "One of the most powerful things that anybody can do, any government, any organization … is adopt what's called the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism."
(Video) Ounka: The mask of Israeli democracy has fallen,revealing a state fundamentally defined by genocide, racism, and expansionism-all built upon the foundation of stolen territory 12/16/2025
(Video) DeepFake Dissident: By platforming people like Noa Tishby, who advocate adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism (an attempt to label criticism of the State of Israel & by extension the genocide Israel is carrying out), @CBS is participating in the suppression of free speech. #BoycottCBS 12/17/2025
(Video) Ali Abunimah: What's not mentioned often enough is that the "International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance" @TheIHRA isn't some sacred body issuing edicts from a mountain retreat. It's just genocidal "Israel" and a bunch of Western countries that give it weapons. There's no reason anyone should listen to them. In fact, it would make more sense to take the advice on this matter of @IHRA - The International Hot Rod Association 12/16/2025
(Video) Many of the biggest critics of Israel are Jews, so blaming them for Israel's actions is wrong, Neutral Jews aren't responsible either; but Greenblatt provides propaganda cover for Israel, which makes him an accomplice for their atrocities! 12/17/2025 Chris Menahan 🇺🇸: ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt labels X a "cesspool" and says that "holding all Jews responsible for policies you don't like of the Jewish state" is "wrong," "just like you can't hold Chinese-Americans responsible for what Beijing is doing." (Greenblatt regularly says that Zionism is inextricably linked with Judaism and anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism because "every Jewish person is a Zionist.")
Wally Rashid: In 1948, Jewish Zionists poisoned wells with Typhoid to kill Palestinians. This was dubbed “Operation Cast Thy Bread”. Zionist leaders at the time then accused Palestinians of pushing antisemitic tropes to block their investigations. 12/17/2025
‘Place the Material in the Wells’: Docs Point to Israeli Army’s 1948 Biological Warfare 10/14/2022
Wikipedia: Operation Cast Thy Bread
(Video) Tamer Nahed 𓂆🇵🇸: This little girl, barely out of childhood, left her soaked tent under freezing rain and biting cold, carrying a water gallon heavier than her fragile body, just to keep her family alive. This harsh reality no major newspaper dares to show. In this cold hell, simply getting water has become an impossible miracle. Share these videos, let the world see the truth as it is, without gloss or lies. This is the pain we live every day, neglected and forgotten, while the world closes its eyes and ignores. 12/17/2025
(Video) When many Jews speak out against Israeli atrocities Zionists often smear or even attack them; is he interested in protecting those telling the truth? Or is he interested in stopping Israeli atrocities that incite hate and blowback? 12/17/2025 Chris Menahan 🇺🇸: Yehuda Kaploun, Trump's Israeli-born Chabadnik nominee for US Anti-Semitism Czar, says "we have to protect every Jew worldwide." "My mission is to ensure that the US is not just a safe haven for Jewish life, but a force that defends the Jewish community around the world." What happened to not being the "world's policeman"??
(Video) Assal Rad: If you’re an Israeli illegally occupying the West Bank, you can kill Palestinians, burn their homes and trees, throw stones, kill their animals and beat them with impunity. If you’re a Palestinian child resisting occupation with a rock, you’re executed. “Where’s the apartheid?” 12/16/2025 Al Jazeera Breaking News: BREAKING: Israeli army confirms killing Palestinian child for throwing stones
Israeli army confirms killing Palestinian child for throwing stones 12/16/2025
ADAM: In the West Bank Israelis are firing riot rounds at toddlers for fun. For fucking fun. 12/17/2025 In Gaza israelis are sniping children in head and chest with real bullets. They think these kids deserve it because they’re Muslim. But they will call you a nazi and try to destroy your life for calling out their supremacism and evil. I don’t give a fuck. I will never stop
'A prank': Israel Police detain suspect for shooting rubber bullets at Ashkelon kindergarten 12/16/2025 A six-year-old child reported being struck in the forehead, while two other children said bullets were fired at them, but did not hit.
(Video) Sophie’s choice: Are you really calling Catholics in the holy land the worst society has to offer ? 07/20/2025 chunguskitten: Cardinal Pizzaballa visits the ruins of the Rosary Sisters School, a Catholic school in Gaza, desecrated by Israeli soldiers with Hebrew graffiti and the Star of David
(Video) Caitlin Johnstone: Well at least they’re no longer hiding the fact that they literally want criticism of Israel to be illegal in Australia. Just coming right out and saying it. 12/18/2025 Chris Menahan 🇺🇸: "No more protests! No more protests!" AIJAC Executive Manager Joel Burnie demands Australians lose their right to protest Israel following Bondi Beach shooting. He also demands prosecutions for "hate speech" and insists all security costs for Jews be put on Aussie taxpayers.
(Video) These lies are so obvious that not only are virtually all the replies calling out these lies, but so is Twitter or X fact checkers! 12/18/2025 Reply to censored or deleted Tweet
(Video) Is there any punishment for Hate speech against Palestinians? Of course not, this is reserved for those telling the truth about Israeli atrocities against Palestinians; which means the truth is "Hate Speech!" 12/18/2025 ADAM: BREAKING: ISRAEL FINALLY TAKES AUSTRALIA’S FREEDOM. Australia will now implement hate speech laws following the Bondi False Flag. The government will also create a BLACKLIST of organizations who promote speech lsraeI doesn’t like. False flag success.
(Video) Glenn Greenwald: Israeli officials, including Netanyahu but also others, spent two days going on TV in numerous western countries ordering them to arrest people who express views Israel regards as anti-Semitic or dangerous - words are violence! - and the UK and Australia are already obeying: 12/18/2025 Sky News: Two people have been arrested in central London for chanting the slogan "globalise the intifada". In the wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, police in London and Manchester have said the "the context has changed". Sky's @Mollie_Malone1 has the latest ⬇️
(Video) Shadow of Ezra: Ben Shapiro says Tucker Carlson should be pushed out of the conservative movement, warning that his rhetoric has become too dangerous. He says Carlson’s language could push Americans toward a real revolution and lead conservatives to “lose control.” Shapiro says Carlson is telling Americans they’ve lost control of their lives, that foreign powers have hijacked the U.S. government, and that their votes no longer matter. 12/17/2025
(Video) They're trying to claim it's "antisemitic" to say Jews or more accurately Zionists control the media & the world, yet at the same time, they're admitting that if they don't have total control it's not for lack of trying! 12/18/2025 Chris Menahan 🇺🇸: The "seven largest Jewish communities on earth" hold biweekly Zoom meetings organized by the ADL to "share tips" and "draft legislation that might work in other countries" to advance their people's agenda. "We have meetings that are some off the record, some on the record with world leaders in which we share our community's concerns and call for action," ADL VP of International Policy Susan Heller Pinto says on an ADL call hosted by ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. Astonishing admission.
(Video) Caitlin Johnstone: If Israel has a right to interfere in our affairs, then we have a right to interfere in Israel’s. If they’re going to push western governments to ban criticism of Israel and assault my free speech, I’m going to push westerners and western governments to turn against Israel. 12/18/2025 Irlandarra: Netanyahu: "I demand that Western governments do what is necessary to fight antisemitism.“ No person on the planet has done more to fuel the rise in antisemitism than this psychopath.
(Video) Niz: Do you want to understand Israel? Watch this video of Israeli weather presenter, Zachi Peleg, wishing for more Palestinian children to die in floods in #Gaza & proclaiming that the number of children dead so far is not enough for him. This is #Israel. He is not an isolated case 12/17/2025
(Video) The Resonance: 🇦🇺JEWISH MAN: “Ahmed Al-Ahmed, he saved my life and my four-year-old's life. If Ahmed Al-Ahmed didn't stop that guy, he was coming to do absolute horror. I can only say thank you to that Muslim brother that came and took it upon himself and risked his own life to save us” 12/18/2025
(Video) Glenn Greenwald: Israel boasting of its ability to force western countries to erode the free speech rights of their own citizens by arresting people who utter phrases Israel dislikes. In the country that gave birth to the Magna Carta, Israel keeps dictating who gets arrested for their speech: 12/18/2025 Israel in the UK 🇮🇱🤝🇬🇧: Press statement: The Embassy of Israel in the United Kingdom welcomes the joint announcement by the Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police forces that they will arrest people promoting the phrase 'globalise the intifada'. As Israel and the Jewish community have been saying for years, calling to ‘globalise the intifada’ is clearly incitement to violence, and a direct line can be drawn between these antisemitic chants and the acts of terror that we have seen against Jewish people worldwide. It is disappointing it has taken such a long time for British authorities to recognise this and it should not have been on the Jewish community to plead with the authorities to take these threats seriously, only being done so after more Jews have been killed. However, we now hope that real action is now taken to stop this chant before it can lead to further radicalisation and violence against Jews.
Ben Norton: The USA is a rogue state. The Trump admin just hit the International Criminal Court (ICC) with a second round of illegal sanctions. Washington fears that, if Israeli officials face justice for their US-backed genocide in Gaza, warmongering US officials will be next. 12/18/2025 Secretary Marco Rubio: Today, the Trump Administration is sanctioning two International Criminal Court judges directly engaged in politicized and illegitimate actions against Israel. The United States has been clear: we will continue to respond with significant and tangible consequences to protect against the ICC’s lawfare, abuse of power, and blatant disregard for the sovereignty of the U.S. and Israel.
Sabby Sabs: Israel has been known to murder scientists. How dare they blame this on Iran! 12/18/2025 AF Post: Israel is examining possible Iranian involvement in the recent murder of senior MIT nuclear scientist Nuno Loureiro, per the Jerusalem Post. Loureiro was murdered in his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday evening and so far no suspects have been arrested, and no motive has been released.
Evan Kilgore 🇺🇸: Candace: "Charlie texted his friends he was going to leave the pro-Israel cause 48 hours before he was murdered. TPUSA: "No he didn't. His support for Israel was iron clad until the end." Candace: *drops texts messages proving Charlie said it* TPUSA: "Actually he did say that he was abandoning the pro-Israel cause and we are happy the truth is out there." ------------ Candace: Charlie Kirk texted his friends that he thought "they" were going to kill him the day before he was murdered. TPUSA: "That never happened." Erika Kirk: "Charlie wasn't texting anyone he was fearful for his life." Candace: Andrew Kolvet actually told me in an off the record conversation Charlie texted me they were going to kill him. ----------- Somebody is constantly lying here... and I don't think it's Candace Owens. 12/12/2025
Glenn Greenwald: Under the IHRA hate speech code that the Trump administration imposed on American universities, it's now outlawed to raise or discuss this question. Anyone who raised this question -- not just about Shapiro but anyone who is Jewish -- would be subject to expulsion or firing. 12/19/2025 Cenk Uygur: Does anyone in their right mind think Ben Shapiro loves America more than he loves Israel?
Israel has many laws giving people preferential treatment based on their religion which is racist, meaning these rules ban the truth! 12/19/2025 Glenn Greenwald: Israel demanded EU countries adopt the IHRA definition of "anti-semitism" in their criminal hate speech laws, and they obeyed. Australia did it yesterday. The US can't do it directly due to the 1st Am, but Trump has forced it on American universities. Some of the banned views:
(Video) Ryan Rozbiani: AMERICANS WATCH THIS NOW. Here is a lost of all the Benefits Israelis get with your tax dollars, meanwhile you can’t even get basic healthcare. Time to WAKE UP and demand your tax dollars go to helping YOU 12/19/2025
(Video) Caitlin Johnstone: Australians everywhere should be made acutely aware that the Australian Israel lobby is now explicitly advocating a ban on criticism of the state of Israel. Not just hate speech against Jews. Criticism of a foreign state. They’re coming right out and saying it. ....... Much more, complete article? 12/18/2025 Chris Menahan 🇺🇸: "No more protests! No more protests!" AIJAC Executive Manager Joel Burnie demands Australians lose their right to protest Israel following Bondi Beach shooting. He also demands prosecutions for "hate speech" and insists all security costs for Jews be put on Aussie taxpayers.
(Video) ADAM: 🚨 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Vivek Ramaswamy states his support for Israel BOMBING Germany, Qatar or ANY other country. He also supports cutting $120B from support for Veterans. lsraeI start wars. You fight them. They benefit. You go in the trash. 12/18/2025
(Video) The Resonance: 🇮🇱Amit Halevi: “In the maternity ward 300 terrorists were born.” Interviewer: “They're Children not Terrorists.” 🇮🇱Amit Halevi: “Yes, Terrorists.” Amit Halavi is an Israeli Knesset member who called newborn Palestinian babies terrorists. 12/19/2025
(Video) Power to the People ☭🕊: Thomas Massie on why they’re withholding & redacting most of the Epstein files: “The files implicate billionaires & political donors that they’re trying to protect. Epstein also had close ties to our intelligence agencies & Israel's intelligence agencies.” 12/20/2025
(Video) Aaron Maté: “Hamas almost injured an Israeli soldier” occupying Gaza, Rubio complains, while Israel kills Palestinians daily. 12/20/2025 Drop Site: JOURNALIST @SHIHAB_RATTANSI: By any metric, the Israelis are flouting the ceasefire that President Trump negotiated. By killing an average of 2 children a day. They’re not allowing in adequate aid. How long will the Israelis be allowed to show such disrespect to President Trump? SECRETARY RUBIO: Peace is a verb. It’s an action. It’s not a sentiment. Hamas almost injured an Israeli soldier the other day.
(Video) Caitlin Johnstone: If Israel is entitled to subvert and undermine the rights of Australians, then Australians are entitled to subvert and undermine the interests of Israel. We should be opposing Israel MORE aggressively as its officials ramp up efforts to push our government to crush our rights. 12/19/2025 Chris Menahan 🇺🇸: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes aim at Australians' free speech rights, calling pro-Palestine protests "anti-Semitic incitement." "You have to be prepared to stop these hate marches!"
(Video) Chris Menahan 🇺🇸: BBC News investigates a "charity" that's scamming children with cancer out of millions fundraised for their treatment—finds it traces back to an Israeli named Erez Hadari who is living in Canada. 12/19/2025 DD Geopolitics: Israeli Network Scams Dying Children with Cancer Out of MILLIONS – Kids Died Without a Cent. Thread: A devastating BBC investigation reveals how children battling cancer are being exploited in a global scam network. Desperate families are promised help, but millions raised in crowdfunding go missing. At least 9 families got NOTHING from campaigns raising ~$4M.Central figure: Israeli man in Canada, Erez Hadari. He links to orgs like Chance Letikva ("Chance for Hope") – registered in Israel/US.Scouts target "beautiful" bald kids aged 3-9 in poor countries (Philippines, Colombia, Ukraine). Fake tears (onions/menthol), props, scripts. Photos sent to Hadari for approval, forwarded to Israel contact. Whistleblower: "They wanted beautiful children with white skin... even drops/props for tears." At least nine families worldwide never received the millions raised in their kids' names. Watch how three children, including Ana from Colombia, appeared in slick campaign videos.
(Video) Ounka: A small kid saying to her mom that “I will go in a jeep and I will kill the Arabs” and her mom reply is “excellent.” They don't just occupy land—they occupy minds. Filling them with poison from birth. This is the real Israeli "security." 12/19/2025
(Video) Glenn Greenwald: This is the new scam. Dems know AIPAC has become a poisonous brand, so they now melodramatically announce they'll reject AIPAC money while just taking the same money from other sectors of the pro-Israel lobby. Scott Wiener is a rabid Israel supporter and this changes nothing: 12/19/2025 Y Disassembler: AIPAC has become so toxic, that CA's foremost champion of genocide is trying to distance from it. And campaign on saying he won't take AIPAC money. Which is meaningless. He's taking money from the same donors, including state lobby trips, through affiliated organizations.
(Video) Ounka: Interviewer: “Would you support to send all the Gazans to the another country?” 🇮🇱:“If it was upto me there will be concentration camps which will burn them.” The mask is off, burned away by the explicit language of genocide. There is no "other side" to this. There is only humanity versus those who have abandoned it completely. 12/20/2025
(Video) The Resonance: “The United States has a rich history of overthrowing democracies around the world, and we have a rich history of siding with some of the world's biggest dictators. So this idea that we're out there protecting freedom & democracy, doesn't mesh with reality.” —🇺🇸John Mearsheimer 12/19/2025
(Video) Drop Site: Secretary Rubio was asked about children in Gaza who have frozen to death because Israel is blocking the entry of tents, mobile homes, and other basic shelter materials, despite a ceasefire that was supposed to allow the free flow of aid. Rubio said adequate aid cannot yet be delivered because it risks being looted. That claim directly conflicts with what a World Food Programme representative said yesterday. The WFP official stated that the ceasefire has eliminated the large-scale looting that occurred through September, when Israel exercised security control over aid access. Meanwhile, UNRWA says it has shelter assistance for 1.3 million displaced Palestinians stockpiled at the border, ready to enter Gaza but blocked by Israel. When Rubio was asked about UNRWA, he called it a “corrupted organization that’s unsalvageable. Period.” He was responding to a question about whether the U.S. is considering sanctioning the U.N. agency mandated to protect the rights of Palestinian refugees. The clip below features the question on Gaza’s humanitarian conditions from @nadia_bilbassy. 12/19/2025 🔴 NEW: **IPC famine assessment due today as Gaza food access improves but humanitarian conditions remain brutal — WFP** Key Findings: 1. Food access in Gaza has improved two months into the ceasefire, but the humanitarian situation remains far from stable, with an IPC assessment expected as soon as Friday likely to reflect that contradiction. ..... Much more
(Video) Ounka: This clip is from 1982. Israel is a problem since it's existence due to it's racist ideology 12/19/2025
Glenn Greenwald: Establishment types cheering Ben Shapiro's tantrum ignore that he's given the same speech for a decade: he proclaims the GOP must expel all who reject neoconservatism, servitude to banks, and US financing of Israel. That's also what he said when demanding Trump be excluded.👇 12/21/2025 1221
Aaron Maté: It makes sense to me that Epstein, an intelligence asset, would try to use or compromise Chomsky, a world-renowned dissident. That doesn’t mean he succeeded. He has blind spots like everyone else, but his views have been consistent his whole life. 04/30/2023 Chomsky is 94. On top of recognizing his lifetime of contributions to a better world, I think it’s important to respect elders. What I would like to hear from Noam is why he met with war criminal Ehud Barack, and what they discussed. That to me is well within the public interest here.
(Video) The Resonance: Dave Chappelle: "They said "But Saudi Arabia k!lled a journalist." "I mean, Israel's k!lled 240 journalists... I didn't know y'all were still counting." 12/20/2025
(Video) Glenn Greenwald: Here's the deleted trailer for the now-"delayed" segment. It's almost impressive how much damage Bari Weiss has done to CBS News in such a short period of time. Someone quickly schedule a prime-time Town Hall with Alan Dershowitz to rectify the harm: 12/21/2025
(Video) Ounka: Erika grieves differently 12/22/2025
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt: Egypt can say what it wants but purchasing $35bn of gas from Israel violates int'l law, including the ICJ advisory opinion of 2024, and is, honestly, an incredible sign of support to Israel during the genocide of the Palestinians. States must stop placing profits above humanity. 12/20/2025 Al Jazeera English: Egypt has said that Cairo’s $35bn natural gas deal with Israel is a “purely commercial” arrangement and that there are no “political dimensions” to the deal.
Egypt says gas deal with Israel is ‘purely commercial’ 12/18/2025 Natural gas agreement worth approximately $35bn comes amid frayed relations over Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.
(Video) Settlers From Within: When Israel’s “democracy” demands loyalty tests from its own Palestinian citizens, is it a democracy? Blaming "Arab Israelis" for Oct 7 and telling them to give up their citizenship exposes the truth, equality is conditional, and coexistence means submission. 12/22/2025 Moshe Feiglin
(Video) Mel: “We simply haven’t programmed the youth correctly.” Mike Huckabee’s explanation for why young Americans hate Israel 12/22/2025
(Video) The Resonance: “Are you an IDF soldier?” 🇮🇱: “Yes” “You K!LLED four Palestinians?” 🇮🇱: “Only four, man. It's only four.” “But you K!LLED four persons.” 🇮🇱: “No, children, not persons.” “You K!LLED four children?” 🇮🇱: “Only four, You're missing the (word) ONLY.” 12/23/2025
Max Blumenthal: Did Bari Weiss try to bury 60 Minutes' CECOT report to protect Marco Rubio? While Stephen Miller has been the public face of Trump's deportation policy, it was Rubio who arranged to send 250 Venezuelan migrants to his friend Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, where they were publicly humiliated and tortured for months. 12/23/2025 60 Minutes not only documented hideous abuses of the migrants in Salvadoran custody, but explained how the Trump admin falsified their relationship with Tren de Aragua by classifying anyone with any kind of tattoo as a bonafide TDA gangster - despite the fact TDA members do not identify by tattoos as MS-13 members have. (Only 3.2% of the Venezuelan migrants detained in CECOT had ever been convicted of violent crimes). Bari Weiss justified her delay of the 60 Minutes report on the absurd grounds that “we need to do more.” Yet her comments contained a certain truth, as Rubio’s central role in the scandal had been omitted. In personally arranging the transfer of the Venezuelan migrants to CECOT, Rubio undercut Trump’s special envoy to Venezuela, Rick Grenell, who was working on a deal with the Caracas that would have seen the migrants sent directly to their home country in exchange for 11 American prisoners, but on the condition that Chevron have its operating license extended in Venezuela. By transferring the migrants to CECOT instead, Rubio was able to deny oil revenue to Venezuela while escalating tensions with Maduro. Rubio also kneecapped Trump’s Department of Justice through his Salvadoran scheme. In exchange for Bukele opening his dungeon to the Venezuelans, Rubio promised him that several valuable MS-13 informants would be removed from US custody and returned to El Salvador, where they could be silenced. The Salvador president and self-described “coolest dictator” feared that these MS-13 informants would expose his secret negotiations with the gang, busting his mythical image as an uncompromising crime fighter who reduced street violence with an iron fist. And so the DOJ was forced to relinquish valuable assets they’d spent years recruiting and cultivating. Thanks to Rubio’s regime change mania, US taxpayers were billed millions of dollars to detain an overwhelmingly non-violent lot of Venezuelan migrants in a Salvadoran torture prison while diplomacy to free Americans was needlessly delayed.
Zionism Observer: 1/ NEW from @gazamaps: Israel occupied an additional 10% of Gaza since the "ceasefire." Counting the land Israel took since the ceasefire, over 63% of Gaza is now an IDF-designated kill zone. (Link at bottom of thread.) 12/24/2025
(Video) The Resonance: 🇺🇸: United States remains available for formal talks with Iran.. Foremost, there can be no enrichment inside of Iran.. 🇮🇷: We appreciate any fair and meaningful negotiation, but insisting on zero enrichment policy is contrary to our rights as a member of the NPT. They want to dictate their predetermined intention on Iran. Iran will not bow down to any pressure and intimidation.. 12/23/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: CBS' 60 Minutes has always been a conduit for CIA and State Dept propaganda (with occasional disruptions by the likes of Mike Wallace.) But the sloppiness and zealotry of Bari Weiss has finally lifted the mask 12/23/2025 Tim Fattig: Senator Frank Church and longtime CBS News producer Sig Mickelson discuss the CIA’s routine use of planted stories and “friendly” reporters throughout the ‘50s and ‘60s. CIA director William Colby appears a few times in this segment, not to deny the allegations, but to tell the Church Committee he wants to discuss it away from the cameras.
(Video) ADAM: BREAKING: 🚨 🇬🇧 🇮🇱 The UK has ARRESTED Greta Thunberg under the TERRORISM Act for simply holding a sign which says "I support Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide." I stand with Greta. Fuck Zionist censorship and the Israeli occupied UK government. 12/23/2025
(Video) Sulaiman Ahmed: JUST IN: Turkish President Erdogan: Under the agreement, 600 aid trucks were to enter Gaza daily, but Israel has failed to uphold this commitment, repeatedly obstructing humanitarian aid with unfounded excuses. 12/24/2025
(Video) Richard: So here we have Ursula von der Leyen describing free speech as a virus and censorship as its vaccine....... 12/24/2025
(Video) Howard Beckett: Francesca Albanese gave the world some invaluable advice: ‘Stay calm.’ ‘The international community is made of 193 states.’ ‘This is the time to give the USA 🇺🇸 what it has been looking for.’ ‘Isolation.’ 12/24/2025
(Video) Megatron: NEW: 🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli Channel 13 openly hosts and amplifies supporters of the genocide. "I want to kick them out. We have to exterminate every last one of them [Palestinians]. I'll tell you what I envision: There's not a single person, not a single tree, not a single house, and if I could, I'd even poison the fish in the sea. Everyone there is an enemy. The child who was born yesterday in Rafah, is an enemy." 12/24/2025
(Video) Power to the People ☭🕊: We need America to wake up and dismantle our entire government because it does not work for us. 12/23/2025 The Resonance: Kash Patel: “We need America to wake up and prioritize Israel.”
(Video) illuminatibot: Bill Gates Calls for Digital ID "Systems & Behaviors" to Combat "Misinformation". "The U.S. is a tough one because we have the notion of the First Amendment. And so what are the exceptions?...I do think over time...you're going to want to be in an environment where the people are truly identified...We're going to have to have systems and behaviors that we're more aware of who says that, who created this?" 12/23/2025
(Video) I'm still skeptical of a lot of right-wingers, including Gaetz, but some of them are right about Israel, and this can be confirmed by more reliable sources. 12/24/2025 ADAM: BREAKING: 🚨 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 ISRAEL IS BLACKMAILING & BRIBING AMERICAN POLITICIANS ISRAELI AGENTS tried to BLACKMAIL Matt Gaetz’s family for $25m by saying they had "images of [Matt] with underage prostitutes." The agents were, of course, never punished and one even "got a television show!" Gaetz also reveals he has personally been offered bribes by Israel and that when he declined he got attacked as an "anti-Semite" by Jonathan Greenblatt at the ADL. This is how they operate. They’re doing it in every country.
(Video) George Galloway: Approximately 50 million of us feel that way… 12/23/2025 HatsOff: Greta Thunberg: “I don’t need to express my utter disgust for the UK government.” A sentiment that rings true to a lot of people these days.
Ali Abunimah: Hypocrisy thy name is Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Japan 12/25/2025 Yvette Cooper: Alongside Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and other partners, the UK condemns the approval of 19 new settlements in Palestine by the Israeli Security Cabinet and calls for this decision to be reversed. International law must be respected in pursuit of a lasting peace. 👇
(Video) The Resonance: Lindsey Graham: “There is no pathway forward to peace as long as Hamas has their arms and they intend to stay in power. They're doing both.” Aaron Matè: “No, they don't intend to stay in power. They've repeatedly offered to step down. what they don't want to do is is completely surrender the Palestinian struggle for self-determination...” 12/24/2025
(Video) Sabby Sabs: On Christmas Eve Israel bombed Palestinian homes. 12/25/2025 Younis Tirawi | يونس: Gaza on Christmas Eve. Israeli troops blow up homes of displaced Palestinian families today. Reminder: The ceasefire went into effect more than 2 months ago.
(Video) During a town hall where Charlie Kirk made a similar claims he spoke to a Christian from the Middle East, probably Palestine, who told him that not only are Christians often oppressed in Israel or Palestine, but they live freely in most, if not all other Arab Countries. 12/25/2025 ADAM: In a Christmas message, Netanyahu says Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Christians can practice their faith with full rights and freedom. This is a complete lie. It is custom to spit on Christians in lsraeI. lsraeI is wiping them out.
Mondoweiss: Newsom just signed AB 715, a vague California law that weaponizes "antisemitism" to silence criticism of Israel in schools. The law deliberately avoids defining antisemitism while forcing districts to adopt the IHRA definition that conflates anti-Zionism with bigotry. Palestinians aren't mentioned once. Free speech takes a backseat to Israel. 12/24/2025
California’s AB 715 claims to combat antisemitism but is a direct attack on free speech regarding Palestine 12/22/2025
(Video) George Galloway: This shameless liar thief and murderer says: What? This arsonist who burned whole families alive in their tents? This man who destroyed churches and mosques hospitals and schools with reckless abandon? This man? 12/25/2025 HatsOff: "Palestinians burned a Christmas tree," Netanyahu says—while framing Israeli Christians as "free" and Palestinians as inherently hostile.
Richard Medhurst: Daniel Raab, an IDF sniper from Illinois, killed a boy in Gaza. Then killed his brother when he tried to retrieve the body. Then killed the father who tried to retrieve his two dead sons. Daniel (bottom row, 3rd from left) and his international unit could be walking among you. 09/10/2025
Mondoweiss: READ: After a tragic shooting at Brown University, right-wing figures linked to Trump—including Laura Loomer and Trump DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon—falsely accused a Palestinian student of being the gunman, launching a doxxing campaign that left him facing death threats. Even after police identified the actual shooter, the conspiracy theories persisted. This is anti-Palestinian racism in action. 12/24/2025
Right-wingers ignite anti-Palestinian doxxing campaign amid Brown shooting 12/23/2025 Right-wing figures connected to the Trump administration launched an online witch hunt by falsely accusing a Palestinian student of a campus shooting at Brown University, potentially putting him at risk. ... During the manhunt, pro-Trump venture capitalist Shaun Maguire posted a video accusing Mustapha Kharbouch, a Palestinian student at Brown, of the shooting. Billionaire hedge fund manager and Trump-backer Bill Ackman also retweeted multiple accounts making the claim. .... Far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer insisted that the shooter was an immigrant student who shouted “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire, even after police found the dead body of the alleged gunman, 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, who was a Portuguese national.
(Video) George Galloway: There are few sights more shaming of the British police and the government which instructs them. Few sights more un-British. At least the Britain we were encouraged to think we had… 12/25/2025 HatsOff: UK police detain an elderly woman for holding an anti-genocide protest sign.
(Video) The Resonance: “IDF fighting Khamas?” 🇮🇱: “No we k!ll everybody not Khamas” “Everybody? Even the children?” 🇮🇱: “Yes & the children” 12/25/2025
Melanie D'Arrigo: Remember when Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, wrote an op-ed trying to justify having sex with kids? Seems relevant now. 12/23/2025 Statutory rape is an outdated concept Alan Dershowitz If a 16-year-old can choose abortion, she should be able to choose to have sex Although the most recent survey shows a slight decrease in teenage sex in the United states, it confirms the reality that the crime of statutory rape is rampant
Dershowitz on the Statutory Rape Law 05/15/1997 The May 7 commentary by Alan Dershowitz (“Statutory Rape Is an Outdated Concept”) pointed out an important gap in the enforcement of statutory rape laws. However, it failed to demonstrate the most important aspect of the subject.
Dershowitz defends 1997 ‘statutory rape is an outdated concept’ column 07/31/2019 Dershowitz was a member of the team that got convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a plea deal that sent him to prison for 18 months.
(Video) Irlandarra: Ben Shapiro: "No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem." You exist to produce tax revenue and fight wars for Israel. 12/25/2025
(Video) ADAM: 🚨 🇬🇧 🇮🇱 Whistleblower reveals that the BBC has DIRECT instructions to safeguard Israel’s image. 12/25/2025
Caitlin Johnstone: “Half the population wants to oppress the other half” is not a news story, it’s just standard partisan politics. It’s what always happens. That’s why our rights need to be protected from this sort of thing. 12/26/2025
‘Protests had nothing to do with the attacks’: activists condemn premier’s plan to restrict rallies after Bondi shooting 12/18/2025 Pro-Palestine activists, some Jewish groups and civil liberty campaigners criticise NSW Labor for ‘eroding our democratic freedoms’
Majority of Australians Back Banning Pro-Palestine Marches After Bondi Attack 12/28/2025 Google AI: Following the December 2025 Bondi Beach terror attack, a, Resolve Political Monitor poll indicated that a narrow majority of Australians supported banning pro-Palestine marches. The poll found that 53% supported a ban on these protests, while 16% opposed it and 31% were neutral or unsure.
This public sentiment emerged alongside new, strict state government laws, particularly in New South Wales (NSW), aimed at restricting public protests, which critics and activists have described as a "clampdown" or "suppression" of the movement.
Key Findings and Developments (as of early 2026):
Public Opinion: While a 53% majority supported a ban, a separate analysis of the same data showed that when including all protest types, a broader sentiment existed against any protests related to the conflict.
NSW Legislative Action: Following the December 2025 attack, the NSW government introduced legislation allowing police to ban protests for up to 90 days after a terrorist incident.
Protest Response: Despite these restrictions, pro-Palestine demonstrations continued, and in February 2026, protesters returned to the streets of Sydney after the "blanket ban" (Public Assembly Restriction Declaration) was lifted.
Legal Challenges: Pro-Palestine groups, including the Palestine Action Group, initiated constitutional challenges against the NSW anti-protest laws, arguing they violate the freedom of political communication.
Impact of the Attack: Pro-Palestine activists have argued that the Bondi attack—which was a targeted attack on a Jewish gathering—is being used by governments as a pretext to restrict their right to march.
Broader Crackdown: Similar measures have been proposed in other states, with Queensland introducing legislation to ban specific slogans like "from the river to the sea" carrying penalties of up to two years in prison.
The situation remains a major flashpoint for debates over the balance between national security, public safety, and the right to protest in Australia.
(Video) Christian Zionists and Jewish Zionists have incompatible expectations about the "End Days" which is a recipe for Disaster. Christian Zionists expect Jews to convert, forcibly if necessary; Jewish Zionists want to enslave Christians. The insanity boggles the mind! 12/26/2025 Sabby Sabs: This is the greatest scam of all time. // Shadow of Ezr: Christian Zionist pastor John Hagee declares that Jews are a “chosen people” who stand above all others on Earth, including Americans. He said this uniqueness was chosen by God, calling Jews the apple of God’s eye.
Do Zionists Believe Their Own Obvious Lies? Zionists have created their own fantasy version of history and current events and are trying to indoctrinate us to believe it! 12/05/2025
(Video) Sabby Sabs: Israel will use Somaliland to spy on the Yemen and attack Ansar Allah. Israel doesn’t care about Africans. They are using them. 12/26/2025 Prime Minister of Israel: The Prime Minister announced today the official recognition of the Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state. Prime Minister Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Sa'ar, and the President of the Republic of Somaliland signed a joint and mutual declaration.
Glenn Greenwald: One of the most fanatical Israel loyalists calls for the prosecution of an American news outlet because it publishes facts Israel dislikes and gives voice to people Israel hates. They want to erode free speech, a free press and due process in the US for this foreign country:🇮🇱 12/26/2025 David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense: If no action is taken against Drop Site News, our laws against material support for terrorism are utterly worthless, as they meet the definition easily. (And it seems that they are.)
Lady Lola 🔻 بیبی لولا: We literally provide weapons and money to the biggest terrorist organization in the world, the IDF. Western Rule of Law died with the 680,000+ Palestinians. Why are you are so against our first amendment rights??? 12/27/2025
Whether you support Hamas or not, there's nothing wrong with a call for an independent investigation or a News Outlet that relays this call; but there is something wrong with demanding suppression of the First Amendment along with an honest investigation! 12/27/2025 Israel keeps getting caught lying! // David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense: If no action is taken against Drop Site News, our laws against material support for terrorism are utterly worthless, as they meet the definition easily. (And it seems that they are.)
(Video) Drop Site: 🟢 Hamas is publicly challenging Israel and its U.S. backers to allow an open, impartial international investigation into October 7—rejecting Israeli claims about civilian targeting, killing of children, and raping of women. In a new political document, Hamas says that “during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7, the resistance did not target any hospital, school, or house of worship; it did not kill a single journalist or any member of ambulance crews,” and adds: “We challenge the entity to prove otherwise.” The movement calls for “an impartial international investigation into the claims of Israeli civilian deaths on October 7,” alongside a parallel probe into Israeli crimes committed during Israel’s war on Gaza. The demand appears in a 42-page narrative released by Hamas today, laying out its account of October 7, Israel’s subsequent war on Gaza, and its view of the current political moment and what comes next. 12/24/2025 Celebrated Israeli-British historian and University of Oxford professor Avi Shlaim notes that Hamas has long said it would accept an International Criminal Court or other independent investigation and punish violations, while Israel continues to bar international journalists from Gaza and rejects any independent probe into the events of Oct. 7 or its conduct over more than two years of military operations in Gaza. Source: @PDeepDive Full document:
Al-Aqsa Flood: Two Years of Steadfastness and the Will for Liberation Dec. 2025
(Video) Glenn Greenwald: Helen Thomas was an American institution, an undeniable pioneer of 20th Century journalism, a fixture of the White House Press Corps for decades. But her career was destroyed, and journalism awards in her name cancelled, because she spoke critically and harshly of Israel: 12/26/2025 Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei: God I love Helen Thomas. This is a long video, but you should watch it and if you’re a journalist anywhere in the world, you should have the courage to do what Helen did in the face of Zionism grow a backbone.
(Video) Helen Thomas - No Regrets 02/17/2011 Joy Behar tries to convince Helen Thomas to retract her comments, she fails; instead Thomas explains her comments.
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Lauren Wise, who told a Tunisian woman she "should be raped and dragged in the streets in front of her kids" for flying a Palestinian flag, just sent me a letter via a Montreal law firm threatening to sue me for defamation for tweeting the video of her hateful tirade. This is an especially pathetic example of the Zionist tendency to play the victim after their pathological belligerence and entitlement is exposed. The legal threat is especially ridiculous considering Lauren Wise explicitly urged her target to post the video of the exchange online 12/28/2025 10/11/2023 Lauren Wise, author of erotica classics such as “Swap Club,” proceeded to ram her car into one belonging to the woman filming her after she delivered this demented rant // پوپلزی: Lauren Wise from Montreal, Canada aka @ThisFunnyGirl tells a Palestinian woman that she should be raped in front of her kids for having a Palestinian flag on her car. This is the type of anti-Arab hate being normalised. @SPVM, is this legal in Montreal?
(Video) Max Blumenthal: The Zionist lady who did this actually paid a law firm to threaten me for a tweet. Completely normal behavior. 12/28/2025 Here's the video for those who can't find it below the fold in the first tweet
(Video) Drop Site: Meta, parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has introduced a new feature that lets you take control of your algorithm by suggesting topics you want to see more posts about. Look what happens when journalist @AymanM tries adding ‘Gaza’ and ‘Palestine’ to his algo. 👇 12/25/2025
(Video) ADAM: An Israeli celebrated Christmas dressing up as Santa and kiIIing civilians in Gaza. He called each bomb a “gift.” Israelis found it hilarious. 12/26/2025
(Video) Ounka: Former CIA Tel Aviv Station Chief admits the truth: The U.S. and Israeli Mossad work hand-in-glove with terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS. They manage it, fund it, and use it to topple governments and counter Iran. 12/26/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Neil Oberman of the Montreal-based law firm Spiegel Sohmer sent me this frivolous legal threat on behalf of Lauren Wise, the Zionist erotica author who wished for a woman to be "raped and dragged in the streets in front of her kids" for flying a Palestinian flag. I hope reporters will ask Oberman why he's sending out bogus legal threats on behalf of a pro-Israel fanatic who could have been prosecuted for a hate crime 12/29/2023 The most basic defense for Libel or Slander is the truth or that you didn't have malicious intent. What, if anything, are they claiming you said that is false? Any good lawyer should know that without that they have no case & this will backfire.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya د.حسام أبو صفية: A year has passed since the detention of my father, In this white coat, he walked alone amidst death, destruction, and in front of tanks—not because he was fearless, but because his oath and his humanity were greater than any fear. He refused to abandon the children and the wounded at Hospital , and for that, he was detained. This image is a testament to the courage of the man who was the last line of defense for life, and it is the very same scene that ended with his unjust arrest. A full year of injustice has passed. Today, we ask for nothing but his freedom. Please share his story to keep his voice alive. 12/26/2025
WearThePeace: Georgetown’s removal of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese comes after relentless pressure aimed at silencing voices consistently standing with Palestinians under occupation. This is a dangerous precedent for academic freedom and human rights advocacy. UN Watch said earlier in the week that Georgetown removed Albanese’s biography from its website. 12/27/2025
(Video) Camus: Whitney Webb warns: AI surveillance companies want more than watching—they're building predictive policing. Glenn Beck: "I don't have anything to hide" — why is that a kindergarten answer? Webb: "They want AI to determine what you'll do next and punish you before it happens. PredPol was wildly inaccurate, yet governments kept using it. The goal is obedience through constant surveillance: anything you do could get you on a list—even if innocent now. Larry Ellison (Oracle) said it: constant recording will make citizens behave because they have to. This isn't safety—it's control." 4:06 clip inside—chilling wake-up. 12/27/2025
Aaron Maté: After destroying Gaza and killing tens of thousands of people, the Israeli government now focuses on making life so unbearable for the survivors that they will be forced to leave. The goal of ethnic cleansing shapes all Israeli actions. 12/27/2025 UNRWA: UNRWA has food, shelter, medical and other essential supplies outside of #Gaza - enough to reach hundreds of thousands of people facing the harsh winter. This aid has been blocked by Israeli Authorities since March. Refusing to let it in is a choice – one that deprives people inside Gaza of the means to survive and recover. UNRWA's 12,000 team members are working tirelessly inside Gaza. But letting the blocked aid in would enable them to multiply their operations massively.
(Video) Sabby Sabs: Palestinians are in tents during a storm and Israelis are sitting comfortably in their homes they stole from them. 12/27/2025 Gaza Notifications: 🚨HORRIBLE: The tents of displaced families in Gaza City are being torn apart by strong winds and rain, while Israel continues to block the entry of caravans and building materials, leaving civilians with no safe shelter.
(Video) ADAM: 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Mark Levin commands people to STOP asking questions about Epstein. He says demanding answers about Israel’s industrial rape/blackmail operation as un-American as it gets… But of course he would say that, wouldn’t he. 12/27/2025
Ounka: ⚡JUST IN - European Parliament lawmaker nominates Francesca Albanese, Gaza doctors for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination signed by nearly 300 eligible proposers from 33 countries 12/26/2025
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(Video) There are major doubts about whether these Christians are being persecuted because of their religion, or, in some cases if they're being persecuted at all; but much more credible evidence show Christians are being persecuted by Israeli settlers! 12/30/2025 Shadow of Ezra: Benjamin Netanyahu says he fully supports the U.S. government’s push to defend and protect Christians across the Middle East and Africa, especially in Nigeria. He says Christians are being treated extremely badly in those regions. “We stand for the same thing.”
(Video) The State of Israel was created with terrorism and theft of land! He's accusing Palestinians of doing what the Zionists already did, as usual! 12/30/2025 AF Post: Alan Dershowitz says Palestinians haven’t “earned” the right for statehood the way Jews have. “You can’t just create a state out of nothing!” Follow: @AFpost
(Video) The Resonance: Emma Vigeland: “Israel has violated it hundreds of times (Ceasefire), k*lled at least 400 Palestinians during that period. This will go down as one of the worst crimes in the history of humanity that our government—Biden administration & the Trump administration are complicit in” 12/30/2025
(Video) Glenn Greenwald: Netanyahu has been signaling that he wants to bomb Iran again. No need: he already has Trump promising to do it for Israel. Not just if Iran tries to build nukes (I thought their facilities were "obliterated"?). But even if they replace their ballistic missiles. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 12/29/2025 AF Post: President Trump said that the US will support an Israeli strike on Iran if they continue their ballistic missile program. “If they will continue with the missiles? Yes. If the nuclear? Fast.” Originally, Trump’s red line was Iran’s nuclear program, but now he has redrawn it to include Iran’s long-standing ballistic missile program. Follow: @AFpost
Caitlin Johnstone: Apparently my opposition to genocide has landed me at the top of a list compiled by the Israeli government. 12/29/2025 carina: 😍@caitoz wins: Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism guide to accounts to follow @Rustinyoureye 😉
(Video) Drop Site: 🎥 A BBC documentary aired in January 2024 documents how the United Arab Emirates funded and directed secret assassination operations in southern Yemen, including target lists labeling political figures as “terrorists.” The film features interviews with American mercenaries from Spear Operations Group, who openly describe killing political opponents, including Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated figures. One operative admits targets were classified as “terrorists,” while the film reveals strikes that killed politicians, imams, and members of civil society who opposed UAE interests but had no demonstrated links to armed or extremist groups. Members of Yemen’s political Islamic party Al-Islah repeatedly appeared on assassination lists, with some surviving attempts described in the film. 12/30/2025 🔴 Breaking: UAE says it is withdrawing all remaining forces from Yemen. Amid rising tensions with Saudi Arabia and a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on Mukalla port, which Riyadh claimed targeted weapons linked to the United Arab Emirates and allied southern separatists, Abu Dhabi announced Tuesday that it is voluntarily ending the mission of its so-called “counterterrorism units” in Yemen. UAE officials said these were its only remaining forces in the country and denied backing southern separatist groups. The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council has rejected Saudi demands to withdraw, with its leader Mohammed Abdul Malik al-Zubaidi calling the Mukalla strike an attack on Hadramout itself. The standoff underscores a deepening split within the anti-Houthi camp, where UAE-aligned forces, which have made major territorial gains in recent weeks, are widely viewed as the strongest on the ground. Saudi Arabia has reportedly positioned up to 20,000 allied troops near Yemen’s border, raising the risk of a direct confrontation between rival coalition partners.
(Video) Drop Site: The documentary, American Mercenaries: Killing in Yemen, was broadcast on BBC Two in late January 2024. The full film is available here: 12/30/2025
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Citing Threat to Soldiers, Israel Says Ban on Journalists Entering Gaza Remains in Place 12/29/2025 Defense Minister Israel Katz told Knesset members that 'repeated violations' the cease-fire by Hamas force the IDF to respond immediately an in a way that could endanger both reporters and troops.
(Video) Juan Hodl: Why are they so obsessed with rape? 09/09/2024 Ron Unz: “They (Rabbis) argue that according to traditional Judaism, it’s totally wrong to punish any Jews for anything they do to non-Jews.” // Stop Arab Hate: 🚨 “You should be r*ped!” Can anyone identify this woman in NYC?
(Video) Frederic Bastiat referred to this as state sponsored legalized plunder, which can apply to many things including taxing the masses to subsidize war based on lies & Israeli quality of life, which he wasn't aware of in his time. 12/30/2025 ADAM: 🚨 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 OUTRAGE after Israel had Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs waste over $100M of PUBLIC funds on lsraeI. Protesters are furious their taxes are fuelling violence abroad while ignoring community needs at home. They call for IMMEDIATE divestment.
(Video) Irlandarra: Student to U.S VP JD Vance at TPUSA event: Why do we have to give Israel billions of dollars to support, to quote Charlie Kirk, this "ethnic cleansing" in Gaza? Vance answered mumbling some excuses about strategic allies, Vance received money from the Israeli lobby AIPAC for his political campaigns 12/30/2025
(Video) The Resonance: “Europe should have offered the Jews a state on half of Germany.. that would be a real good compensation for the Holocaust..” “Building a Jewish state at the expense of people who had nothing to do with European anti-Semitism was a very bad idea..” —Israeli historian Ilan Pappé 12/30/2025
(Video) Chris Menahan 🇺🇸: Alan Dershowitz says the right is becoming more influential among youth, and "don't even pretend" they're "not anti-Semitic." He calls out "Carlos Fuentes" (Nick Fuentes), "this other woman who says Jews control the slave trade" (Candace Owens), and Epstein accuser Maria Farmer. 12/30/2025
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