It’s been more than 24 hours since I asked, and nobody has been able to provide a single shred of evidence. I think we can safely say that @Alonso_GD has never seen a video of Israel executing children.

Some people pretend to believe that these 12 pages from Arday’s thesis don’t indicate plagiarism

An Introduction to Zionism: Your Sunday reading list: 1. Walid Khalidi, “Introduction”, in: From Haven to Conquest (1971), yplus.ps/wp-content/uploads/…

The 2SS is not meant to be a “solution”. It is meant to be an exhaust vent for people who are either morally indifferent or committed to the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians and need to buy Israel some more time to carry it out.

2/"You need to organize a bypass economy," he said, pointing to digital currencies. Asked whether blockchain could be the alternative, he said yes: "One of them. Certainly. I've already asked for a plan to be prepared." A sanctions-bypass economy is the survival strategy of countries excluded from large parts of the international system. countries like Cuba. Iran built one, relying on shell companies, alternative payment channels, and networks for moving money and goods off the books. So did Russia. The price has been steep: impoverishment and long-term isolation. The crypto element deserves particular scrutiny. Digital currencies can indeed move value outside some traditional banking channels. But they are not a substitute for a national financial system. They don't provide credit lines to banks, they don't replace international capital markets, and they don't persuade foreign companies to violate sanctions that bar them from doing business with Israel. Crypto transactions are themselves subject to monitoring, restrictions, and sanctions enforcement. Israel's crypto industry was quick to respond that public blockchains are transparent and traceable, not a hiding place for money. They do not want to associated with Netanyahu's sanctions evadion vision. Netanyahu didn't merely mention the risk; he spoke of preparing a bypass economy and of a plan he had already commissioned. He said it calmly, in response to direct questions, presenting it as a contingency that justifies staff work. Statements like these can themselves unsettle markets, investors, and financial institutions – before a single sanction is imposed, and before a single vote is cast. About a year ago, Netanyahu spoke of Israel needing to become a "super-Sparta," adopting features of a more self-reliant, autarkic economy. At the time, it could be read as a call for independence in defense production. Now he is talking explicitly about banking sanctions and a bypass economy. There are two possibilities. Either Netanyahu is serious - in which case he is telling Israelis that their economy faces a threat of a kind it has never faced, because without high-tech and a functioning economy there is no functioning society, and certainly no modern military. If so, the public deserves to know what assessment underlies this, and where the ideas about a "bypass economy" and crypto came from. Or he spoke without proper preperation, about a subject he hasn't fully thought through - which raises serious questions about his judgment and capacity to serve as PM. The reactions within Israel’s business and high-tech communities have been extremely harsh. Investors, business owners, founders and others see Netanyahu’s remarks as evidence of a profound loss of control and judgment. Will this affect the election? It seems likely that once Shabbat ends in Israel, Netanyahu will seek to clarify his remarks and shift the conversation to another subject.

Six police surround myself and my wife and arrest us at home. This is from the police bodycam footage. We’re currently taking action against Bedfordshire police for this outrageous arrest. Myself and my wife were clearly soft targets, not exactly hardened criminals but they handcuffed both anyway …all charges dropped after a couple of months with no apology or explanation. The children were terrorised and they’ll never trust the police again.

It’s mind-blowing how after 3 years of live-streamed genocide these people continue to cling to the fantasy that there is no evidence of deliberate targeting of civilians, including children. That it’s all “collateral damage”. Is it a coping mechanism? Or disingenuous hasbara?

If he opens that can of worms WW2 could he deemed unjust, and Ukraine’s defence of Russia’s attack. Not to mention many other examples. And how much destruction. I’d put it down to age. It gets us all.

Owen Jones has, for the last three years, revealed himself to be a man of enormous courage, integrity and truthfulness. No one should think for a minute that his relentless defence of Palestinian rights and historical truth is easy or comes without heavy personal costs. Throughout the genocide in Gaza, Jones remained a tireless bur rigorous and supremely decent voice. I suspect part of what initially moved him was the strong displeasure in being treated like an idiot by the official propaganda – a noble motive in itself – but there is no question he has been genuinely touched by the images of suffering arriving daily from Gaza. And yet, how does his intellectual fixation on a battle between left and right help us understand the horrors of Gaza, or move us to stop them? My impression is that the opposite has happened. People look at what is happening in Gaza and ask themselves what a person on the right or on the left should think. In many cases this is ideology. In most, simply careerism and group association. Jones shows how limited the perspective really is. How about, like the author himself, asking how a human being should feel? How about returning to the world of facts and feelings rather than our endless Marvel franchise? newstatesman.com/culture/boo…

The issue with Walzer has never been the in bello / ad bellum distinction, but a Eurocentrism that doesn’t let him accept that the invaded/attacked country is Palestine, not Israel so, ad bellum, the just cause was never the latter’s regardless of the former’s in bello violations

Mehdi @mehdirhasan GRILLS centrist, contrarian pundit Matthew Yglesias for calling Gaza ‘a just war’. “What does it say for your credibility…if you've gotten the two biggest foreign policy issues of our lifetime, Iraq and Gaza, both wrong?”