Last night there was a Kristallnacht vigil in Copenhagen arranged by the Jewish religious community and Danish politicians. It drew huge crowds and had the prime minister as its keynote speaker. This vigil did not have the condemnation of all forms of racism that you find at the usual more left-ish vigils. Speakers spoke solely about Jews and antisemitism, although to their credit they had a minimum of respect and refrained from zionist, islamophobic or similarly racist statements.

What drew attention was not the neonazis standing next to the vigil with a huge banner saying "Fuck Islam" and shouting "Thanks to Netanyahu for declaring war on Islam!" which caused the assembled crowd to boo the neonazis. No, what everyone was talking about was a woman from a small pro-Palestinian protest chanting "Children in Gaza has the right to live".

The protest was approached by foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen who saw an opportunity to play out performative "engagement" with the unwashed masses. As politicians are in these situations Rasmussen was arrogant and dismissive with a veneer of reasonable civility, asking the woman to "calm down" and made nonsensical about Denmark donating a token amount to humanitarian aid in Gaza. When he asked if the woman was angry about the Al-Aqsa Flood, she answered:

No, I'm really not. I'm very happy that Hamas made that decision on October 7th. We've been in fucking prison since 1948.

That statement has caused all chuds in Denmark to go and several far right politicians has attempted to pressure the police and government to throw her in prison, deport her or whatever nastiness they can come up with.

One fascist member of the parliamentary justice committee has made a formal inquiry to the ministry of justice, asking whether:

• A police report about the woman has been made
• If the police has investigated the "case"
• Whether charges has been raised
• If so to make an account on the woman's
  • Nationality
  • Legal residency status
  • Status as a welfare benefit claimant
  • Employment status
  • Whether she has acquired Danish citizenship administratively or by naturalisation either as a main applicant, side applicant or descendant hereof
  • If so, what legal founding she was granted citizenship on, and
  • Her original citizenship

When they fart low we fart high

Pro Palestinians Protestors occupying New York Times.

https://www.youtube.com/live/XKFJPvO8rUQ?feature=shared

Dr.Finkelstein with uncut and uncensored reply to Bernie.

"I can barely say that name anymore, without being filled with contempt and disgust".

To Bernie: "If you have nothing constructive to say...SHUT UP".

"Hamas needs to be destroyed?" (quoting Bernie) and then gives us facts why Israel is far worse in every respect, stating that given Bernie's arguments, Israel should be destroyed instead. He is absolutely on fire...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R49v3K29mM

From the BBC: Israel-Gaza: Union members block arms factory in protest over conflict

Over 400 union members involved apparently.

reddit-ass country I swear to god

"israel" defenders be like "No, they are not doing genocide because the population in Gaza grew"

Actual "israeli" officials: "Yeah, we're doing a second Nakba."

Al-Qassam just announced destroying a 6th tank and targeting an israeli infantry unit fortified in a building with a TGB.

Total israeli tanks destroyed today - announced - rises to 8.

An important fact to consider is that not all tanks in any military's inventory are combat ready, out of the 2,200 tanks Israel possesses they state 1,730 are combat ready, frankly I think that number is ridiculously high, we're talking a majority of tanks being decades old and held by a military already proven to be incompetent and lax

I wouldn't be surprised if only 40% of their inventory are remotely combat ready, and every day that passes the maintenance needs continue to build up and tanks that were combat ready suddenly aren't, 30% of US vehicles broke down on the three-week march to Baghdad in 2003 without any intervention by the enemy

Just something to keep in mind, one of the greatest virtues of guerrilla warfare is it places the bulk of the logistical burden on the conventional force

...

Zionists are wheeling out their white children props. One simple trick to save his life: stop carpet bombing Gaza

Haha whoopsie, I forgot that the life of a single white child is worth more than a million brown savages. More genocide now!

Let's all point and laugh at this webpage on how to spread Zionist propaganda: https://israelunderfire.net/best-practices/

The world is overwhelmingly with us right now (mainly in Western countries, even including those that are usually critical of us).

lol

Who?

Non-Jews in Western democracies (other messaging is needed for Jewish audiences).

95% of messaging for a Zionist audience is "Death to Arabs" repeated in a loop.

DO NOT explain Israel’s policy

The issue here is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a whole. It is very difficult for us to win there. October 7 is about war crimes committed by Hamas, an organization that people abroad for some reason do not perceive as terrorists, no matter how much we try to say that they are. Now there is proof. It’s our 9/11, and that’s a relatable analogy for most Westerners.

Gee, I wonder why.

Them: bans 'from the river to the sea'

Me: 'from a natural stream of fresh water that flows in a channel with defined banks to a large body of salt water partially surrounded by land'

Not sure if this has been posted but in today's UN assembly, Israel's UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan has called the UN, WHO, and literally everyone else as working for Hamas (twitter)

Many UNRWA workers in Gaza are themselves members of Hamas. The time has come to bust the myth of UN supplied facts

It bothers me greatly that Arab countries are doing virtually nothing beyond making empty statements about the Gaza genocide.

Post Soviet Russia has many L's but even they had the foresight to intervene in Ukraine and Georgia before they were able to launch their genocides.

This is how you distinguish real vs “organic” protests btw, real protestors don’t get hours-long specials on prime time TV like the China Human Rights NGO ghouls

I've had a few conversations with Irish people about the Troubles over the years, and I gotta say, the dichotomy between the understanding of the Troubles I've gotten from academic sources; An extremely political conflict between ideological Irish paramilitaries on one side and British foreign and military intelligence on the other, with Britain very deliberately using right wing and fascist proxies to commit massacres to drive up the body count, prop up the religious conflict narrative, and undermine and dismiss the political character of the conflict, is kind of profound. "Well both sides were bad and it was all senseless sectarian violence" is the narrative I hear from Irish people a lot, whereas the academics mostly position it as the tail end of an anti-colonial struggle with the British government being major drivers of violence as they passed arms and intelligence to various Unionists and just outright murderers.

Also something I don't hear much about from Irish people is the initial civil rights protests in Northern Ireland, contemporary with the US Civil Rights movement, that resulted in a harsh crackdown from the British backed by Unionist violence, and was the proximate cause that escalated from relatively low violence protest to armed paramilitary forces. Folks talk like the troubles just happened, with no real cause or origin.

Idk. It's weird. Outsider perspectives vs insider perspectives, different narratives, different sources of information and knowledge.

The BDS working group has split from the DSA

We, as an organization, are no longer affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America and, moving forward, will be known simply as the Palestine Solidarity Working Group.

Zionists have resorted to ~~paying~~ giving people microgrants to show up to protests: https://nitter.cz/namoooseh/status/1722356557764001958

The direct link: https://israelcc.org/apply-for-a-microgrant/

Thank you for all your requests to attend the March for Israel Rally. We are pleased to announce that we have successfully allocated funding to help thousands of students attend the event.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-lawmakers-urge-govt-proscribe-irans-revolutionary-guard-2023-11-12/

British lawmakers and members of the upper house of parliament have called on the government to proscribe Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation, saying it would be a step towards restoring stability to the Middle East.

saying it would be a step towards restoring stability to the Middle East.

new type of confused pro israel guy: "how dare Hamas take hostages knowing full well the IDF would indiscriminately kill them"

Wishing every IOF tank gets 🔻

The amount of people fervently trying to pretend that Israel isn't a settler colonialist state when we have thousands of examples of settlers and Israeli leaders going "We are doing settler colonialism and it is great actually" is baffling.

And then seeing the "well Israelis are there now, should they just leave?" from the same people who argue that Palestinians should just leave is going to give me an aneurism.

70% of people in Gaza are displaced with many living in inhumane conditions, UN agency says

I usually give a quote or quote the whole thing but just the title was too much for me. In just ~15 minutes I've read one awful update after another. I didn't even want to glance at the text of that one. I didn't mean to but I read "thousands of cases of acute respiratory, skin infections, diarrhea, and chicken pox".

Trying to break through a huge wall of "it's complicated" with my Dad on the Palestinian genocide. I told him about the March of Return protests in 2018-19.

He also had no idea that the Palestinian Authority even existed with Israel's full permission and that the West Bank was a separate piece of land from Gaza that has nothing to do with Hamas.

The most critical element guaranteeing Israel's defeat remains Egypt, Israel's ethnic cleansing plan spoke of an incredible lack of knowledge of internal Egyptian politics especially concerning the military, Israel's defeat was sealed the minute they hedge everything on pushing 2.3 million people into the Sinai, THE most politically sensitive region of Egypt

The arrogant fascism of Israeli society assumed the US could pressure the Sisi regime into actions that would guarantee its overthrow, a comprador will sacrifice his fellows, but he won't sacrifice himself

Hamas threaded the needle and revealed the genocidal nature lurking at the heart of that Nazi state, tying all factions in the region inevitably into a reckoning whether they want it or not

And I haven't even brought up the internal divisions ripening in Israel

what this doesn't come out and say is nonetheless very loud

🔻 The US Military Command in Europe claims that five US soldiers were killed when "their plane crashed over the eastern Mediterranean Sea" on Friday.

from https://t.me/PalestineResist/19178

I’m shocked they actually aired this on CNN

Someone's getting fired at CNN HQ

quirked up hamas fighter with a little bit of swag busts a tank down jihad style. is he goated with the sauce?

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2023/11/6/turkish-protesters-try-to-storm-airbase-housing-us-troops

I don't see this on CNN's website....

A doctor in Gaza

11 surgeries back to back today

11 broken bodies

11 shattered lives

11 stories of heartbreak, sorrow and grief over loved ones slain

11 Palestinians betrayed by a humanity that sides with powerfull against the rightious

11 unknown futures without loved ones

Nitter

I feel like covid has been memory-holed so hard even the libs who were very mad at China for "starting" the pandemic wouldn't mention it if you asked them to list their top grievances with China. it would probably be Taiwan, Uyghurs, and ties to Russia, in that order.

Paxlovid does not prevent Long Covid

Multivariable logistic regression models controlled for age, sex, race/ethnicity, chronic conditions, and COVID-19 vaccination status. We found that participants who took nirmatrelvir/ritonavir were no less likely to develop long COVID symptoms, compared to those who did not take the medication (44% vs. 49.6%, p = 0.21). Taking nirmatrelvir/ritonavir was associated with a lower odds of two of the eleven long COVID symptoms, brain fog (OR 0.58, 95% CI 0.38–0.88) and chest pain/tightness (OR 0.51, 95% CI 0.28–0.91). Our finding that treatment with nirmatrelvir/ritonavir was not associated with a lower risk of developing long COVID is different from prior studies that obtained data only from electronic medical records.

Timothy Snyder writing about how Ukraine is the battle for democracy “of the century” on the very same day Zelenskyy declares no elections in Ukraine.

President Xi says we can have a little Maoism, as a treat

Xi meets with representatives of grassroots units applying 'Fengqiao model'

What is the Fengqiao model? Generaly speaking, a mass line based model developed and advocated in Mao’s era that directed the masses themselves at the local level to carry out the on-site “rectification” of “reactionary elements” in society promoting greater degrees of local self-governance and "decentralizing" class struggle. The “Fengqiao experience” ,named after Fengqiao Township, was the process of mobilizing the masses in order to “strengthen the dictatorship over class enemies.” Here is how the top Party leader of Fengqiao District at the time (early 60s) reflected back on it:

During the National People’s Congress in 1963, the minister of public security, Xie Fuzhi (谢富治), gave a speech called, “Relying on the Strength of the Masses, Strengthening the People’s Democratic Dictatorship, Transforming the Majority of ‘Reactionary Elements’ into New People” (依靠群众力量，加强人民民主专政，把绝大多数“四类分子”改造成新人). Xie’s speech made specific mention of the example provided by Fengqiao.

On November 20, 1963, Mao Zedong added his written instructions to the Xie Fuzhi speech, in which he said: “The example of Zhuji raised here is a good one — various regions should follow this example, expanding the work through pilot programs.” Before the Cultural Revolution, the ministry of public security released materials about Fengqiao, but the People’s Daily never reported on these. On December 21, 1977, the People’s Daily published the piece from the top Party leader of Fengqiao District quoted above. That piece was called, “Raising High the Red Flag of Fengqiao Erected by Mao Zedong, Relying on the Masses to Strengthen Dictatorship"

In the struggle against the enemy, arrest is necessary and proper only for a small number of class enemies; as for those you can choose to arrest or not, none should be arrested; you must mobilize the masses to carry out a struggle of reason, to deal with the enemies, carrying out on-site monitoring and rehabilitation, without the need to submit issues to higher authorities. This experience was affirmed and praised by the greater leader and teacher Mao Zedong.

Until recently, no top Chinese leader since Mao Zedong had ever been quoted publicly in the People’s Daily or other state media making remarks on the “Fengqiao experience.” But in 2013, marking the 50th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s written instructions, Xi Jinping broke this pattern by issuing “important instructions on the development of the ‘Fengqiao experience’." But the focus and promotion of the model has increased considerably in the last few years.

In the report of the 20th National Congress it was clearly directed that that the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era must be upheld and developed at the grassroots level of society and based on it the mechanism for correctly handling contradictions among the people under the new situation should be improved. To facilitate and regulate the expression of public demands, coordinate interests and safeguard rights.

In March 2023, Xi again emphasized the need to uphold and develop the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era, improve the mechanism for correctly handling conflicts among the people under the new situation, and promptly resolve conflicts and disputes at the grassroots level and in the bud by involving the masses in the identification of elements ,practices or people that must be reformed. During the Hangzhou Asian Games, Xi made a special trip to inspect the Fengqiao Museum and affirmed the great historical and practical significance of the "Fengqiao Experience".

The other day, along with the meetup i originaly linked Xi met with like 4 heads of state (including the Australian dumbass) ,yet his meeting with cadre representatives of the "fengqiao model" was the frontpage news on the People's Daily and other state media over them

To end with some interesting (optimistic and with a bunch of assumptions) food for thought. The "common prosperity" project, lauded as the next stage in socialism with chinese chracteristics and specificaly its "pilot" in Zhejiang, aimed to be completed by the mid 30s, calls , among other things, for "adjusting income distribution" and "adjusting excessive income". No specifics have been given on how that wealth redistribution will be achieved but it is notable that county-level social conflict and dispute mediation and resolution centers have been also a behind the scenes focus of the "common prosperity" pilot in Zhenjiang and its also the province with the most developed and widespread grassroots "fengqiao model" system

Saudi preacher calls for prayers to help the people of #Gaza and obedience to their Kings and rulers [obeying orders to not help Gaza physically], because apparently according to him, helping Gaza creates divisions amongst Muslims. Thoughts and prayers, everyone, Gaza needs you. 🤷‍♂️.

Saudi Arabia needs a proper French Revolution, guillotine and all, traitorous dogs

Interview with a settler

Absolutely unhinged stuff

What are the borders of that Jewish nation?

The borders of the homeland of the Jews are the Euphrates in the east and the Nile in the southwest.

The shittiest propaganda you’ve ever seen <3

Israel now says 1,200 were killed not 1,400. It's funny how that works.

Israel adjusts death toll from 7 October attacks to 1,200

Israel has revised downwards the death toll from last month’s Hamas attacks in the south of the country from 1,400 to about 1,200, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Friday.

“This is the updated number,” the spokesperson, Lior Haiat, told AFP.

“It is due to the fact that there were lot of corpses that were not identified and now we think those belong to terrorists not Israeli casualties.”

Israel previously said Hamas fighters who poured across the heavily militarized border on 7 October killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, the news agency said. Friday’s statement now says that “about 1,200 people” were murdered by Hamas.

- The Guardian