The top U.S. #intelligence ofcl on Mon warned that the #war in #Gaza could embolden #terrorist groups, which are aligned in their opposition to the #UnitedStates for its support of #Israel.
“The crisis has galvanized #violence by a range of actors around the world. And while it is too early to tell, it is likely that the Gaza conflict will have a generational impact on #terrorism,” #ODNI#AvrilHaines, told an annual hearing on #GlobalSecurity#threats.
The Oct 7 attack on #Israel by #Hamas has inspired fresh threats to the #UnitedStates by #alQaeda & #ISIS-affiliated groups, #AvrilHaines said, while #Iran-backed militant groups have used “the conflict as an opportunity to pursue their own agenda” against the United States. “And we have seen how it is inspiring individuals to conduct acts of #antisemitism & #Islamophobic#terror worldwide,” she added.
From The Times, London ‘becoming a no-go zone for Jews’
Pro-Palestinian protests are turning #London into “a no-go zone for Jews”, an independent adviser has claimed. Robin Simcox, a #HomeOffice commissioner, said extremist groups had “gone unchallenged for too long”.
Rubbish - but the Right wing press and the Tory Government are determined to establish and promote #xenophobic and #islamophobic narratives. More in alt.
More than one million people from around the world have signed a petition by the human rights organization #Amnesty International, calling for an immediate ceasefire in #Gaza and accusing #Israel of "wiping out entire families."
The petition states, among other things, that The Israeli authorities continue to dehumanize Palestinians in their rhetoric, bombing crowded refugee camps, hospitals, UN-run schools, bakeries, mosques and churches, roads and civilian homes. Civilian hostages held by #Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza remain at risk, and indiscriminate rocket fire towards Israel endangers civilians.
'Not productive': MTG’s 'unprovoked, unwarned, and unsubstantiated attacks' causing GOP to 'cut ties'
However, Petrizzo pointed out that 23 House Republicans' decision to part ways with Greene after she recently proposed a resolution to censure U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) over her "pro- #Palestine rhetoric," further proves that "GOP members are neither fearing nor loving" the Georgia lawmaker.
Indeed, words like #antisemitic and #islamophobic, while they are warranted descriptors for some people, they are largely being weaponized as cheap debate/discourse terminators by those who don't want to challenge their own beliefs or do the research.
V Yaroslav Trofimov of WSJ:
This is a video from the ChP_Kavkaz telegram channel purportedly showing a sort of preemptive police raid in Dagestan - in majority 'Muslim areas of Russia’s north Caucasus mobs raid hotels looking for Jews after rumors spread that some Israelis had moved there to flee the war. This video is from Dagestan, but similar incidents happened in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia.'
@LALegault@UncivilServant
Some stats from London's Met police, from2 days ago: #Antisemitic#hate crime has continued to soar in London, with 408 offences recorded so far this month compared to 28 in the same period last year.
#Islamophobic hate crime is also on the rise, up from 65 offences last October to 174 so far this month.
#Elon said: "The foundation of war is economic power. Especially industrial output. How many tanks, guns, and drones can you make relative to the other side? ... if not now, in the future it probably will be, that a Russia-China-Iran alliance can outproduce the Western alliance".
I hate China #Musk. But pushing African and Muslim countries closer to China because of a far right apartheid state called #Israel is foolish.
So, in the #UK, the number of #AntiSemitic#HateCrimes have gone up by almost 15 times, and #Islamophobic hate crimes have almost tripled. Not in the last year, but in the last THREE WEEKS.
Recent events have given arseholes carte blanche to target both communities.
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a swanky fundraiser much of the news focused on the anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist‘s celebrity guest: musician Eric Clapton.
In recent years, the Chernicks have been generous donors to Republicans and pro-Trump political action committees. They also in the past have financed Democratic candidates, conservative outfits, and groups cited as #Islamophobic.
The fact that folks aren't up in arms about it really pisses me off. No one gives a shit unless they're the target, & since masto.nz is run by #WhiteSupremacists, the white folks on that server have nothing to worry about. Silence is complicit. You stay on that server, you support their behaviour. #DoBetter
I knew a few good people on #MastodonNZ. Not all of them were fascist jerkfaces. Now, I have no contact with any of them, thanks to an #Islamophobic and #bigoted admin team running it. They may be new people, but they’re just as horrid as the old group running that instance.
I left that server MONTHS ago. I’ve had ZERO interacting with their admin/mods. Today out of the blue, they block the server I’m on. There are only TWO #Muslim run servers, and they blocked one of them.
If you have a hard time hearing the truth about the #islamophobic foreign and policies of the @DemocraticParty, block me ASAP. I’m not here to talk to delusional people living in denial that everyone at the top of #USPol is an #Islamophobe. Some just keep it well hidden. They don’t tell you about the phone tapping and probes carried out against #AmericanMuslims. They DO tell you about #Palestine, but most of you couldn’t care less about brown skinned people in the Middle East.
'The Most Political Act for Jews in Israel Is to Learn Arabic' - “ there is ample need for our project, with less than 0.4 percent of Israel’s Jewish population capable of reading a literary text in Arabic” @israel@palestine
@Sherifazuhur it’s worse… #Arabic is mostly learned in the army for very specific reason, as you can imagine. Similar #islamophobic attitude use to be very prevalent in Israeli academia, i.e in respect to Middle East studies. This is about the change in status of Arabic in #Israel and its implications to both Palestinians and Jews: The Jewish Nation-State Law states, implicitly and explicitly, that Israel belongs not to all of its citizens, over 20 percent of whom are not Jewish. Instead, it declares that Israel belongs to the Jewish people, some half of whom are not Israeli citizens https://www.972mag.com/arabic-was-an-official-language-in-israel-for-70-years-2-months-and-5-days/
@louis already told you in private how sorry I am you had to waste your time on this. Honestly, I apologize on behalf of the Jewish people (at least that part who doesn't reside in Brooklyn). This onslaught of lies, inaccuracies, hyperbole, omission of facts (did the 3 recover the toots they've deleted?), is soooooo familiar to me as an Israeli (we've been living with this American import to the occupied territories for years, see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilltop_Youth).
The irony is of course that I'm Israeli, and they're not (I'm not even sure if they speak Hebrew). But please bear in mind, this has nothing to do with #antisemitism, it's about politics and an attempt to block any voice outside the narrative acceptable by this group (again, they're not Israeli... I am).
It's also hypocritical that a complaint to the moderator about the dissemination of #Islamophobic content tooted by @baruch and boosted by @serge (aka @emacsen) goes unaddressed. Why? I don't see that toot on Baruch's timeline. Might be wrong, but was it removed? I repeat, it was boosted by Serge.
I have a new #research out! In it, we explore alt. news' reporting on Ukrainian refugees. We saw that they were positively contrasted to #Muslims through arguments of alleged differences in culture and geographical origin, perceived legitimacy as asylum seekers, and in terms of gratitude We found that rather than being a threat, #Islamophobic comparisons to Muslims were used to frame Ukrainian refugees as part of a #white in-group. @digsum check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437231179363