Anna Mack

Vile abuse has nothing to do with robust debate, and it's growing because billionaire tech bros have built platforms that reward extremist attacks and misogyny and they have gutted the moderation that once kept it in check.

Still thinking about this beautiful girl. Holding back her tears, trying to be strong as she watches her family’s home be bulldozed to the ground. The weight of the whole world on her shoulders. I look at her and I see my babygirl. My babygirl who just turned 14, almost a woman but forever my baby. There’s NOTHING I wouldn’t do for her. NOTHING I wouldn’t do to avenge her heartache. NOTHING I wouldn’t do to right a wrong like this. Every fiber of my being screaming DON’T TREAD ON ME when I watch this video. Long live the Resistance.

This is what we see when we wake up every morning in Gaza; everything is rubble and destruction. Israel has made the city uninhabitable.

Israel’s general election last week unmasked beyond question the West’s much-cherished fiction of Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state”. That Israel’s democratic pretensions are taken seriously should in itself be astounding. For decades Israel has been given a free pass – revered even – as the “only democracy in the Middle East”. Israel’s birth as a so-called “Jewish” state in 1948 was only possible because its military expelled 80 percent of the native population, some 750,000 Palestinians, from their homes to areas outside Israel’s new borders – in what amounted to one of the largest acts of electoral gerrymandering in history. Israel was created as a “Jewish” state, with an overwhelming Jewish majority, through an act of mass ethnic cleansing. Once Israel’s leaders had secured a rock-solid Jewish majority – after rigging their democracy – only then did they consider giving the surviving Palestinian population the right to vote, and call them “citizens”. That was the key factor differentiating Israel from an earlier apartheid state, South Africa. South Africa’s white leaders dared not give the black population the vote precisely because it comprised a majority. In a one-person, one-vote system, black parties would have had more seats than white parties. Giving the black majority the vote would have been suicidal for the apartheid project. But in the apartheid state of Israel, the Palestinian minority presented no such electoral threat. In any given election, the number of seats gained by the political parties representing the Palestinian minority in parliament would always be vastly outnumbered by the legislators representing the Jewish majority. That demographic imbalance was set in stone through legislation: the 1950 Law of Return. It gave every Jew in the world the right to gain instant citizenship in Israel while at the same time stripping every Palestinian expelled by Israel – and all their descendants – of any right to ever return home. And as a bonus, giving the Palestinian minority the vote served as a propaganda coup. Unlike the old South Africa, Israel’s apartheid character could be better hidden from outsiders, especially given that western establishments were so ready to conceal what their key militarised client state in the oil-rich Middle East was really up to. This is an extract from my latest article Israel’s election shows its democracy is a sham, but the West can’t stop buying the lie. Find a link to read the rest in the reply post ⬇️

I make a cameo in this important film about the impact of Gender Ideology in Australia. I’ll be attending the premiere but if you can’t make it you can watch it live-streamed. See the website for details..

🇮🇱🇺🇸 A Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish author calls Zionism a form of mass psychosis, and he has the history to back it up. Benjamin Moser wrote the definitive Jewish anti-Zionist history. He says the Israeli election isn’t a real election. It’s a vote over who gets to run the concentration camp. Both candidates support the genocide. Both support the nation-state law enshrining Jewish supremacy. Both want the war on Iran to continue. The economy is the number one issue for Israeli voters. Not the tens of thousands of children killed in their names. In his assessment, this is a society that has “gone completely psychotic.” A settler colony placed at bayonet-point in the Arab world, now addicted to a cycle of violence it cannot break. Even Herzl’s own friend told him: “Theodore, I’m crying because you sound crazy.” Moser is a descendant of Holocaust refugees. He says if you’re Jewish and serious about fighting anti-Semitism, there’s one option: speak out against Zionism. Because it’s happening in your name. “I refuse to have my heritage kidnapped by these people.” @BenMoser123

Our exclusive interview with @FranceskAlbs about the UN's new report "Truth under the rubble: media in the time of genocide" Showing how the mainstream has failed it's duties to prevent the worst crime of all time. youtu.be/xNx3BuFfI3s

I have to leave Australia so I can actually run a start-up exclusively for women while men who claim to be women have BREASTFEEDING PROTECTIONS IN LAW🤬 The current government, including representatives of the attorney-general, have no plans to fix it. They’re happy to admit it:

🇵🇸 HEBRON | Israeli forces continued their siege of the Al-Jalda and Deir Baha neighborhoods in the largest West Bank city for a fifth consecutive day, raiding and damaging homes, restricting movement, and obstructing aid deliveries. Since Israel launched its collective punishment campaign Friday, 619 Palestinian families have been affected, approximately 3,971 Palestinians forcibly displaced, and 85 arrested. Israeli forces also dispersed a protest against the siege with tear gas, causing several people to suffer gas inhalation, and stormed al-Ahli Hospital, firing tear gas at its entrance and courtyard and seizing vehicles from its parking lot. See footage below ⬇️

Watch this. Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists. “We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1