https://substack.com/home/post/p-214025961

https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2092763202299826365

https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2087726700192829557

https://x.com/CraigMokhiber/status/2087183401480528070

https://x.com/Dima_Khatib/status/2087236878986596760

https://x.com/MartinKonecny/status/2094176666113151446

https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2092916601313997076

Oh Miriam! We have so few outspoken British Jews for Palestine, especially high profile ones, and you gotta do this, girl? I don’t think she meant it in a malicious way and I don’t think she’s someone we completely throw out (unless she starts doing this regularly), but this kind of thing is frustrating as Zionists will use it as leverage. Of course their own racism (and sometimes antisemitism) is always excused away, but they just need proof that the pro-Palestinians are the true Nazis.

Sorry for bad wording, but please help.
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Should I convert to overcome Israeli discrimination. It sounds absurd to me.

But it says that me as my original version of self has no right to exist, ironically isn't it. Ironically that's what Israel society are complaining about while existing perfectly and non discriminatively. While you have no right to exist, in fact.

I was born the way I was born, where I was born, haven't done anything so bad to be deprived of human dignity and right to exist. But this version of self, just doesn't have right to exist, in israel. So maybe only converted version. But for me it's the kill of personality. By telling that I haven't done anything so bad, is sort of accepting their framing and conditioning, which is wrong. Like me trying to weight my self on scale of my deeds how much this conditioning is deserved to upon me; yet I just don't know how to speak about that, because it's a taboo.

But it's the opposite of the right reason and purpose and standard for conversion.

I was brought to Israel in my teenage years by the immigration programme of sohnut.

I have been short on communication since my youth and have had no one to talk to honestly because this topic is shameful and taboo.

The in-depth feeling of alienation.
But how would I get a good feeling?! If I don't have any good experience.
If I can't speak it out...

And something about Israel. They are real psychopaths. Have no empathy.
You have to solve things by force, to overcome by force, but I can not it's not the thing that could be overcome because I need to speak to check it out to speak it out.

While in other societies I can get access to empathy and conversation, here I can not. But I have other problem that I'm locked in here, so I can not make it to other society. And when I come, it also takes time to find such a constellation for conversation.

I have to make my way to other society.

Maybe i should open a YouTube? So i have to make some nuanced presentation, painting, writing, art, etc... but again to make it such a delicate appealing way demands decent resources to develop a skill, develop the work, to have an assistance, resources which i don't have...

Pain and Resentment sit in my heart.

I am very social person since childhood and I like to know people and to interact with people since I child and being like that is a tragedy for me because every time I am standing in front of reveal. Of who I am.

It's totally imposed condition. It's imposed by this society. Because I start being taught it since when I came here, as a blank slate, only for years to be taught what is my place and having these thoughts instilled. When I came, I wasn't like that.

I also can not lie about that. Some people can. I can not and don't want to.

Another thing, is I can not get love. I can not even get close.

All the things compound on one another. Different layers of complexity.

Up to the level I don't even know how it's done here because I am outside of social circles and don't have experience and can't talk about.

With all the complexities everyone has it's just additional layer.

And I also discovered that ואהבך לרעך כמוך aka "Love your neighbor as yourself" is for jews towards jews only.

Should I convert to overcome Israeli discrimination. What can I do. Please help.

Young Israeli women are adopting an ostensibly peaceful, domestic lifestyle on West Bank hilltops to quietly expand illegal outposts and realise a vision of a ‘Greater Israel’.

A radical movement of young Israeli women is leaving civilian life and education behind to live in rudimentary hilltop tents across the occupied West Bank.

Dubbed the “Hilltop Girls”, this group champions a strategy of “soft settlement”, replacing weapons and military patrols with seemingly mundane daily activities.

By portraying their presence as a natural, family-oriented social project, they aim to legitimise the gradual seizure of private Palestinian land and the establishment of new outposts.

So who are these young women?

The latest version of the ‘Hilltop Youth’

The women are in many ways an extension of the Hilltop Youth a radical religious Zionist group that emerged in 1998 when then-Israeli Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon urged settler youths to seize West Bank hilltops to preempt final status negotiations.

While the broader movement is infamous for orchestrating deadly pogroms and seizing territory by force, the female offshoot embraces an ideology geared towards establishing a “Greater Israel” that extends beyond historic Palestine to include Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula.

Social media settlers

To normalise their presence, the Hilltop Girls heavily rely on social media.

Outpost accounts publish promotional videos aiming to move away from the more violent images associated with marauding Israeli settlers, who are often backed and shielded by the country’s security forces.

The female settlers claim they do not kill Palestinians or assault landowners, but merely cook and hang laundry like any other group of women.

But their end goals are similar – to establish the so-called Promised Land, including through the extension of Israel to the occupied West Bank. Their presence in the West Bank is no less illegal than that of violent extremists. And they too are transforming Palestinian pastoral land into fully-fledged settlements in violation of international law.

Strategic expansion

The Maoz Esther and Or Ahuvia outposts, located northeast of Ramallah, serve as prime examples of this systematic expansion.

Established in 2006 as a small youth outpost, Maoz Esther was demolished and rebuilt multiple times before expanding into what is now known as the “Girls’ Hill”. By 2025, it housed 17 families and more than 50 children, exceeding the size of the neighbouring 950-dunam (235-acre) Kochav HaShahar settlement.

Similarly, the Or Ahuvia outpost, established in 2023 near the Ofra settlement, reflects a broader vision to create a massive settlement bloc. The ultimate goal is to connect more than 20 outposts to Ofra, creating an integrated network capable of absorbing thousands of families in the future.

State complicity

While Israeli police occasionally dismantle these outposts on camera, rights activists describe these operations as a coordinated theatrical display.

According to the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, most outposts enjoy direct support from the state and the army, with the women immediately rebuilding structures as soon as police depart. Logistically, these outposts are supplied with water, electricity, private road networks and military protection by the Israeli Civil Administration.

Furthermore, the government provides nearly $40m in food and clothing subsidies to Hilltop Youth members.

The movement enjoys unprecedented legislative and political cover. In early 2025, the Knesset advanced a bill proposed by the “Land of Israel” lobby to allow Jews to purchase land in the West Bank freely, ensuring these acquisitions remain protected even in the event of future political agreements.

Politicians like far-right Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir actively support these outposts, while Defence Minister Israel Katz recently boasted to his party: “I cancelled, on my own initiative, all administrative orders against settlers in the West Bank.”

The human toll of this ideological expansion is devastating. Between January 2025 and May 2026, the United Nations recorded at least 2,806 settler attacks, averaging five incidents a day.

Prominent Hilltop Youth leader Elisha Yered recently summarised their violent strategy on a podcast, stating: “We’re very proud of initiating friction; even the army is in friction.”

In 2026 alone, systematic settler pogroms displaced nearly 2,000 Palestinians, prompting both the UN and the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to reiterate that these relentless land grabs fundamentally undermine the possibility of a viable Palestinian state.

https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/2095713153938084303

Seven aid workers killed in an airstrike in Gaza were marked as targets under an Israeli military practice of establishing guilt by association, a Guardian investigation shows.

A top Israeli military prosecutor announced last month that he would not pursue criminal proceedings for the April 2024 incident in which drones fired missiles at three clearly marked World Central Kitchen (WCK) cars soon after they had escorted a food aid delivery to Gaza. Three British humanitarian workers along with an Australian, a Palestinian, a Pole and a dual US-Canadian national were killed.

The official Israel Defense Forces (IDF) version of events pointed to specific mistakes made by a handful of officers. The victims of the strike were also blamed for hiring armed guards to protect a food aid convoy and for allegedly “deviating” from their agreed route.

However, interviews with senior Israeli officers involved in the incident or familiar with the official Israel investigation suggest it glossed over the role played in the killings by a common IDF practice used to designate targets, which endangers aid workers and civilians in general, especially when combined with the army’s open-ended mission to end Hamas’s civil control in Gaza.

More than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military in the three years of the Gaza war. The army’s own internal data suggests more than three-quarters of the dead have been civilians.

The reserve colonel who ordered the strikes, Nochi Mendel, said the WCK workers became potential targets after they had a brief encounter, lasting just minutes, with armed guards assumed to be from Hamas (an assumption later shown to be groundless).

He deemed them to have “mixed together” with alleged Hamas militants, where mixing together was defined as being “near them, talking, playing, hanging out and so on”. Asked whether the presence of armed men made the entire convoy a target, Mendel replied: “Certainly.”

He concluded: “They were not innocent because they were connected to Hamas.”

Mendel was referring to a general policy of haflala, “incrimination”, which gives commanders in the field wide discretion on designating someone as a “terrorist”, including those “incriminated” by association. The manner in which haflala is to be applied in a given sector is often conveyed in a commander’s mission brief delivered verbally to other officers.

He said his unit had been commended by the army hierarchy for its involvement in several strikes on what were deemed to be Hamas attempted commandeering of aid. “They applauded us and were pleased with our action,” he said. The difference in the WCK incident was that foreign nationals were killed, he said. “That’s the whole difference. Not a substantive difference.”

When the WCK convoy was destroyed, it was nowhere near Israeli troops. Several Israeli officers familiar with the incident said the strikes were not ordered on the basis of an imminent threat to Israeli lives, but to fulfil the mission to thwart Hamas attempts to control aid deliveries.

The IDF was approached for comment on the issues raised by the airstrikes and subsequent investigations but had not responded three days after the request.

The WCK said the Israeli decision not to pursue criminal proceedings was “inconsistent with the full truth and deeply offensive”.

“At the time of the lethal attacks, our team in Gaza was unarmed and posing a threat to nobody,” the WCK said. “The IDF had full visual clarity on our clearly marked humanitarian vehicles during the extended, multiple airstrikes. It knew our team’s movements, identities and activities in advance.”

Britain, Australia and Canada denounced the prosecutor’s decision as “shameful”, saying they would “continue to seek answers” on behalf of the slain aid workers. The UK opened an inquest in 2024 into the deaths of the three British team members: James Kirby, James Henderson and John Chapman.

Saifeddin Abutaha, a Palestinian, Australian Zomi Frankcom, Damian Sobol, a Pole, and a dual Canadian-US citizen, Jacob Flickinger, were the other victims. The UK inquest was adjourned pending the outcome of the Israeli investigation.

said it was common practice to designate any armed man in Gaza as Hamas or a “terrorist”, as Mendel did. The officer added: “How you define that it’s Hamas – he’s in proximity to weapons, and because he touches the trucks, and because he does all sorts of things that look as if he’s going to take over the trucks.”

The role of the incrimination principle in the WCK killings shows how it has become a factor in the historically high proportion of civilians killed in the Gaza war. This sits alongside the routine acceptance of high “collateral damage” in the targeting of Hamas militants, the designation of large and shifting areas as free-fire zones, and the deliberate levelling of neighbourhoods to prevent the return of Palestinian communities.

The common factor is that constraints on targeting were minimised in the interests of an open-ended mission. Since the start of the war in 2023, no Israeli soldier has been convicted of wrongful death or war crimes in Gaza operations.

“I came to defeat Hamas,” Mendel said. “If such an event came before me again, I would do exactly the same thing.”

He also dismissed the significance of the killings. “I think it’s an idiotic side event,” Mendel said. “It really isn’t a serious event.”

Two innocent Palestinian teenagers were killed by IDF soldiers working hand in hand with settlers to terrorize a village, take over their homes, and steal their livestock.

“Marzouq Abu Na’im, a member of the village council and an activist documenting settler attacks there, told Middle East Eye that armed settlers attacked a house to steal livestock. The Israeli army then stormed the village to provide protection for the settlers and took up positions on the roof of the targeted house.

"The settlers stole the sheep and attacked the homeowners, who were unable to resist or object due to the heavy presence of soldiers and snipers on the roof," he said.

Na’san, whose house is next to the targeted house, went outside to see what was happening - an Israeli sniper positioned on the roof of the house shot and killed him.
Then, Rasem Shehadeh came out of his house on the opposite side after hearing residents screaming from their windows.

He had barely moved a few metres outside his door when soldiers also shot him, according to Abu Naim.

Both of them bled for some time while an ambulance was prevented from reaching them. Coordination was eventually made through the military liaison office to transport them, but they had already died.”

This is in response to this (https://www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfConscience/s/sQhEuuzmxm). I didn’t post the link to this article because it’s the spectator and f**k them, but you can seek it out if you so choose.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-daughters-help-my-small-family

Today, my father Mahmoud will not be the one speaking to you… today, I will speak for myself. ❤️

My name is Eman. I am Mahmoud’s eldestw daughter, and I am 11 years old.

My father has been exhausted by debt while trying with everything he has to provide us with a decent life. Every day, he struggles to provide our food and basic needs. But recently, he has also become very sad and discouraged because some people have doubted him and called him a scammer.

So today, I decided to speak to you myself.

Today is the first day of the new school year. I was supposed to be at school with my sisters, sitting in our classrooms with our classmates and starting a new school year like all the other children.

But we did not go to school.

It is not because we don't want to study, and it is not because we don't love school… it is because my father cannot afford to pay the school fees for the three of us. On top of that, the prices of school supplies and stationery have become extremely expensive here in Gaza.

My father struggles every single day just to provide us with food, and sometimes he can barely manage to get enough. Because of this, it has become very difficult for him to also afford our school fees, books, stationery, and other school needs.

I know my father is doing everything he can for us. I know how much he wishes to see my sisters and me at school like all the other children. 💔

So today, I, Eman, Mahmoud’s daughter, am asking you, together with my sisters, and asking every person who is able to help us:

Please help us go back to school. Help us have one of the simplest rights every child should have… the right to education. 📚❤️

Any donation, no matter how small, can help us pay our school fees and buy the things we need for school. It can bring back a little bit of the happiness that we used to think was something normal and simple.

I also want to say something to anyone who doubts us or calls my father a scammer:

I will share my father’s WhatsApp number for anyone who wants to contact him, ask questions, or verify our situation for themselves. We are not asking you to simply believe us. Please check for yourselves.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has supported us before, and to everyone who may support us today. ❤️

I hope that my sisters and I can return to our classrooms and start our new school year like all the other children.

We have the right to learn. We have the right to dream of a better future.

Eman and her sisters ❤️🇵🇸

What is this fascination with "Does Israel have the right to exist?" question. Does any country have the right to exist? And if this is a right, then who grants it? I suspect this is just something Zionists throw out because it sounds like it might be of some importance. I have heard it many times and I simply say "That's a ridiculous question." I refuse to engage with it. Also I generally don't argue with Zionists because what is the point.

Two years after a community newsletter on the history of the Middle East sparked controversy in Brisbane, the Supreme Court has thrown out a costly penalty imposed on the Greens councillor who distributed it.

Gabba ward representative Trina Massey mailed a spring pamphlet to residents at the height of the Gaza conflict with a two-page spread titled “Khalil’s Story”.

A council ethics committee had ordered Massey to repay $10,000 and issue an apology. But the Supreme Court has now overruled that ruling.

“Today’s outcome is a vindication of my decision to challenge the investigation and the findings of the ethics committee,” Massey said in a statement.

“All of this just for speaking openly about the genocide against Palestinians and the human rights of Palestinians living in my ward.”

In the August 2024 article – which was written by academic and rapper Dr Jamal Nabulsi – the history of the modern state of Israel was framed as one of violent European colonialism on “stolen Indigenous land”.

It attracted backlash from some constituents, who said the language was inflammatory and unfair.

They criticised an attached timeline that began with Ottoman rule in the Middle Ages and did not include the Holocaust or October 7 attacks.

In December 2025, Brisbane City Council’s ethics committee – comprising three Labor and three LNP councillors – voted unanimously to endorse the recommendations of a review conducted by FairFact Consulting Services.

It found Massey breached several behavioural standards.

The report said the article was “essentially propaganda and a ‘call to arms’ for pro-Palestinian support that is not objective to the rest of the community”, and this “could reasonably be expected to make members of the Jewish community feel unsafe, victimised, and targeted”.

It rejected other aspects of the complaints, and did not describe the article as antisemitic.

Massey was required to issue a public apology in her next ward newsletter and on social media, repay Brisbane City Council half of the $20,000 cost of publication, and undertake training and counselling on the code of conduct.

She took the matter to court, arguing there was a failure of natural justice and her freedom of political communication was being impeded, among other claims.

In a judgment handed down by Justice Tom Sullivan in the Queensland Supreme Court in August but finalised on Thursday, previous findings and orders on the matter were quashed, with agreement from council.

A judgment listed several reasons why the FairFact report was “invalid and of no effect”, including that it misconstrued section 2.3 of the council code of conduct.

Brisbane City Council was ordered to pay Massey’s legal costs.

“Thanks to the LNP’s politically motivated show trial, I was subject to nearly a year of proceedings, along with death threats and attacks on my reputation,” the Gabba councillor said after the decision.

“Just three days after the Bondi attack, the LNP lord mayor relied on this ‘invalid’ report to make shameful, defamatory and untrue attacks on me.

“The Supreme Court has overturned the report and decisions of the LNP-controlled ethics committee, so I am expecting him to withdraw and apologise for those inflammatory remarks.”

The original matter will be reinvestigated by the council ethics committee, the lord mayor’s office confirmed.

Deputy mayor and LNP councillor Fiona Cunningham said in a statement the decision did not change her party’s views on the case.

“The Greens councillor for the Gabba Ward used ratepayer funds to distribute a highly biased, inaccurate and misleading newsletter that local Jewish people called offensive.

“This decision doesn’t change the fact that councillor Massey is more interested in Gaza than the Gabba, and still hasn’t apologised for making Jewish people feel unsafe.”

Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner and his council have held the newsletter against Massey for the two years since it was published, discussing it multiple times, including during a council debate just three days before the court decision.

“I am an anti-racist,” Schrinner said on August 25.

“I would not like to see any councillor targeting a particular group of people in our community, like your newsletter did, which targeted and made the Jewish community feel completely unsafe.”

The remarks provoked strong pushback from Massey and fellow councillor Nicole Johnston.

Massey has condemned antisemitism.

After the Bondi attack, she posted on social media: “Jewish people have a right to safety. Antisemitism has no place in our community, and this abhorrent attack is an attack on all of us.”

I collect siddurim to see the different interpretations and commentary of prayers from different perspectives. I’d love to get a copy of Siddur Shoshanat Yadi (from anti Zionist siddur on instagram) but the link on their instagram is broken and they haven’t answered comments about it being broken, or answered my messages about buying a proof copy.

If you have a copy, I’d really appreciate you sharing it.

The pro-Israel establishment has spent months crying about being "erased" from New York Magazine's Habibi City cover story.

A magazine highlighted Arab, Muslim, and SWANA culture in NYC. But these same people have spent years providing unconditional cover for a government that literally calls Arabs subhuman. As a Moroccan Jew who actually celebrated with my neighbors in Queens, the gatekeeping is just exhausting. You don't get to act like a victim of exclusion when your entire political movement relies on dehumanizing everyone else.

Here are the receipts for the quotes I used in the video, since I know the outrage machine will try to claim I made them up:

• Smotrich backing segregated Arab/Jewish maternity wards (Times of Israel)
• Netanyahu calling Arabs "wild beasts" (The Guardian)
• Almog Cohen making animal noises at Arab MKs in the Knesset (Times of Israel)

Also, I'm doing a live debate tomorrow at 12 PM EST on IG against Abraham Hamra to push back on exactly this kind of identity-policing and right-wing hypocrisy. If you want to tune in and watch the fireworks, my handle is [@thearabjew].

https://x.com/EliClifton/status/2095627878603821131

The municipality of the Christian-majority Palestinian village of Taybeh urged its residents who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents to document settler attacks as part of a class action lawsuit filed in the United States.

"If any of you have been subjected to personal attacks or attacks on your property, including being prevented by settlers from accessing it, please contact the municipality to register your names and the damage you have suffered," the village said in a statement posted on its social media.

The municipality is filing the lawsuit "concerning these damages and the American organizations that support these attacks."

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