But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. - The Savage

Joined October 2017
A shtick became fashion
Today Israeli authorities barred me and other European elected representatives from entering the West Bank to meet Palestinian students and civil society leaders, as part of a @ProgIntl delegation. We knew that by crossing into the occupied Palestinian territories, we risked being detained, interrogated and turned away by Israeli authorities. And that, alas, is exactly what happened. For more than eight hours, we were held, interrogated and made to feel as though we had done something wrong simply by attempting to enter. The simple truth is we had done nothing wrong. We went to show our support for the Palestinian people and highlight the terrible injustice and violence being perpetrated against them. We want to ensure that people back home do not look away from the reality of what is happening. Ultimately, we went to show solidarity. But we left with an even greater determination to speak out. We will not be silenced, and we will not look away. None of us should.
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Borderless Academics
My latest: Doctors Without Borders admitted to @NewYorkSun that a photograph showing a Hamas battalion commander wearing the organization’s uniform was likely of a man it had employed in Gaza. Hamas published an obituary video on October 18 showing Ahmad Dawood Abu Mohsen in different sets of combat gear, training inside Gaza with several weapons, including an AK-47.  The obituary states that Mohsen, who was a deputy commander in Hamas’ Tel al-Sultan Battalion in Rafah, was born on 22 December 1996 and killed in Gaza on 22 March 2025.  The following day, Mohsen was mourned in a Facebook post as a martyr alongside a picture of him in a Doctors Without Borders uniform.  When asked about the Hamas video as well as the photo of Mohsen wearing their uniform, Doctors Without Borders “confirmed with local staff that it appears to be him.” The story was first reported by @Aizenberg55 - an independent scholar who is also a board member of Honest Reporting.
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On this day—October 25, 1934 Harvard’s “Jewish problem” is nothing new. This day, the university held a mock trial of Adolf Hitler. All testimony about Nazi persecution of Jews was ruled irrelevant, and a panel of Harvard professors acquitted him on two of four charges. The very same Harvard warmly welcomed Hitler’s foreign press chief and personal associate, Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl, only months earlier. The Harvard Crimson had argued he deserved “the marks of honor appropriate to his high position in the government of a friendly country.” Harvard maintained ties with Nazified German universities, hosted Nazi officials and naval officers, and limited Jewish enrollment. Events in 2023 and 2024 proved the legacy endured, as Harvard became a national symbol of campus antisemitism after October 7.
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Israeli musician Itay Benda just lost his entire YouTube channel after 17 years. Terminated over copyright strikes. 17 years of music. Thousands of hours of content. Him playing every instrument himself. His whole journey… gone in a second. And the timing couldn’t be more painful. He’s been using music to connect people from different countries, religions, and cultures — “Peace Through Music.” Now he’s asking for help. If you know anyone at YouTube, in the music industry, or rights holders who can actually look at this with human eyes… please reach out. Share this. Help bring his channel back. He’s not giving up. Neither should we. Instagram Profile: instagram.com/itaybenda/ TikTok Channel: tiktok.com/@itaybenda Facebook Hub: facebook.com/bendaitay/ Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱🎶
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"We are f*cking kind"
This is the most amazing video you will watch today. Enjoy 😘
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𝗛𝗼𝗮𝘅 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗝𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 ❌ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗲: Awda TV, the official television network of the Palestinian Authority, published a video showing a “Jewish settler” administering a liquid to one of the goats in his herd. The channel claimed that he was deliberately poisoning his own livestock as part of a “false flag” operation, intending to later blame residents of the nearby Arab village of Al-Mughayyir and attack them. ✅𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵: The liquid shown in the video is not poison, but a mixture of water and activated charcoal powder, used as a veterinary treatment in cases of poisoning. Jewish shepherds at the Metzudat David Farm carry this powder with them while grazing their herds. When poisoning is suspected, they mix it with water and administer it orally to the goats to help prevent further absorption of toxins into their bodies. According to the farm’s residents, this treatment has already helped them save several poisoned goats. Since the beginning of the year, 18 poisoning incidents have been reported across Judea and Samaria, most of them at the Metzudat David Jewish Farm near the hostile Arab village of Al-Mughayyir. 𝗝𝗦𝗥 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝗺
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BREAKING: The three terrorists who entered a church in Jordan and massacred innocent Christians have been identified. - Mohammad Sami Hussein - Mush'el Zeidan Mohammad - Hizaa Zeidan Mohammad
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Il y a deux choses que je déteste : le communisme et le reggae. Pour moi, l’enfer doit ressembler à ça :
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Look what will not make it to the news
🚨 ISRAEL UNCOVERS UNDERGROUND INFILTRATION ROUTE INTO JERUSALEM — 36 ARRESTED Israeli security forces discovered a concealed passage running through sewer infrastructure from a-Ram in Judea and Samaria into Jerusalem’s Beit Hanina neighborhood. The entrance was hidden beneath a parked commercial vehicle. During an overnight raid, Border Police, undercover units and IDF troops arrested 32 suspected illegal infiltrators and four suspected accomplices. All 36 were transferred for questioning.
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Am Freitag ehrt Marburg den Arzt Bilal El-Zayat mit dem „Leuchtfeuer“. Die Laudatio soll die ehemalige EKD-Ratsvorsitzende Margot Käßmann halten. Laut einem BKA-Vermerk von 2003, der GLUT vorliegt, war El-Zayat für ein Konto verfügungsberechtigt, von dem Geld an den 2002 verbotenen Hamas-Spendenverein Al-Aqsa und an Islamic Relief floss. Im Vorstand von Islamic Relief saß damals sein Bruder Ibrahim. Stadt, Jury und Preisträger schweigen oder wollen Anfragen von GLUT inhaltlich nicht beantworten – die Humanistische Union spricht unterdessen von einer „Schmutzkampagne“. glut-magazin.de/artikel/wenn…
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Zur Logik palästinensischer politischer Gewalt. Bei Attacken wie heute Früh in Hebron widmet sich der mediale Diskurs meist sehr schnell den Fragen der Folgen und des cui bono (also wer, vor allem auf israelischer Seite, davon profitiert oder profitieren könnte). Die Frage nach dem Motiv bleibt dabei häufig nicht nur unbeantwortet sondern wird meist gar nicht gestellt. Dabei scheinen zumindest manche den Einsatz politischer Gewalt von Palästinensern gegen Israelis als ein Naturgesetz zu betrachten - aus Gewohnheit oder aus Überzeugung. Es gibt jedoch weder in der Geschichte noch in der Gegenwart ein universell gültiges Prinzip, das besagt, dass (empfundene und/oder tatsächliche) Unterdrückung und/oder Diskriminierung zur Anwendung tödlicher Gewalt führen muss. (Es steht selbstverständlich außer Frage, dass das einer von vielen möglichen Pfaden ist). Wo der Mensch aber nicht aus einem unentrinnbaren Reflex heraus handelt, handelt er durch Entscheidungen - und diesen Entscheidungen liegen wiederum Motive zugrunde. Das Motiv palästinensischer politischer Gewalt gegen Israelis ist es, die Botschaft zu vermitteln, dass die Existenz eines selbstbestimmten jüdischen Kollektivs innerhalb des Gebiets des ehemaligen britischen Mandatsgebiets Palästina für seine Angehörigen immer einen hohen kollektiven und individuellen Preis haben wird, und dass sich Israelis, vor allem israelische Juden, darin nie völlig sicher fühlen werden. Dieses Motiv basiert auf dem Gedanken, dass das Wohlergehen der palästinensischen Nation den Niedergang Israels und der darin lebenden jüdischen Nation voraussetzt. Der Einsatz von Gewalt soll also vorerst nicht Palästinensern helfen, sondern vor allem Israelis schaden - weil das angeblich der Pfad ist, der im weiteren Verlauf Palästinensern die größtmögliche Verbesserung bringen soll. Soweit der Gedanke. In der Realität tritt das Gegenteil ein: Die Gewalt trifft nicht nur die israelische Seite sondern hat auch langfristig katastrophale Folgen für die Palästinenser im Westjordanland und in Gaza. Es gibt eine (gefühlt) wachsende Anzahl von palästinensischen Stimmen, die die Theorie palästinensischer politischer Gewalt als Sackgasse bewerten. Zur Erinnerung: U.a. sagt der palästinensische Oppositionelle Samer Sinijlawi @SSinijlawi, dass Palästinenser - aus eigenem Interesse - diametral entgegengesetzt zur herkömmlichen Herangehensweise handeln sollten: Anstatt Israelis in Angst und Schrecken zu versetzen, sollten sie versuchen, ihr Vertrauen zu gewinnen. Und anstatt im Rest der Welt die Gegenerschaft gegen Israel zu fördern, sollten sie auf Israel als künftigen Partner setzen.
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Group therapy without the therapist
The Free PaIestine crowd was hanging outside Jerry Seinfeld’s sold out show in Washington DC. Is anyone in this movement not on SSRIs?
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סצינה הזויה לגמרי בליון: אישה מתחננת לפורעים שיכבו את האש שהציתו בכניסה לבניין שבו כלואים ילדים כי מכבי האש חסומים בהמשך הרחוב על ידי בריקדות שהקימו. המפגין אומר לה ״מעניין לי את הביצים, אנחנו צעירים אנחנו רוצים זכויות״.
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Die üblichen Verdächtigen
🇧🇷Liberal Hollywood celebrities take part in video campaign to tell Brazilians to vote for socialist Lula Da Silva in the name of ‘democracy.’ Tilda Swinton, Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo have starred in a campaign supporting the far-left Brazilian President to stop ‘fascism.’
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𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 - 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 The poisoning of the flock at Or Nachman Farm, near the Arab village of al-Mughayyir in the Binyamin Region, was reported during the day. This is the 17th livestock poisoning incident in Judea and Samaria since the beginning of the year. Most of this year’s flock poisonings originated from al-Mughayyir, with sheep and goats from nearby farms falling victim. 𝗝𝗦𝗥 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝗺
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𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗜𝘀 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯 “𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁” 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 A handful of Arab olive pickers with half a bucket of olives, dozens of foreign photographers and far left activists facing a single Jewish farmer. 𝗝𝗦𝗥 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝗺
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The fact that this account still hasn’t been banned is insane.
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📍The mosaic from the ancient synagogue of Gaza, dated to the 6th century CE now displayed in the Good Samaritan Museum near Ma’ale Adumim showcases the long Jewish history in the city of Gaza from the Hasmonean era in the 2nd century BCE until they were ethnically cleansed in 1929
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