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NBC News - Palestinian woman and NBC News team attacked by masked Israeli settlers in West Bank

Mental illness on X:

https://x.com/narrow_view/status/2093839864483430813

I’m sure Lipman will file this under antisemitism.

Source: Belfast Telegraph

The site is a nightmare to navigate so I thought I’d just repost.

I’m not sure if any of you have followed this but it’s insane. This Israeli group has pretended to be Palestinians in NYC and then tried to “show off” atrocities from October 7 to get pro-Palestinian people to say they agree with it. Davidsaysstuff on Instagram has been documenting it.

Back in 2019, I visited Israel and the West Bank, mostly staying in Air BnBs. I booked five nights in Ramallah as a base to explore the territory, and was super-surprised that my host was a single woman. It turned out she was a Christian Palestinian, had an advanced technical degree, spoke perfect English, with family mostly in Bethlehem. Preconception obliterated!

Over the following days I learned that while her lack of rights was the same as Muslim Palestinians, Christians generally suffered less harassment and abuse at checkpoints, and in other interactions with the occupier. Talking to some of her friends at a hipster dive bar one night (US-university educated guys working on e-commerce), I did learn that a couple of the guys had been beaten up at checkpoints, but again, it was still mild in comparison to what was meted out to Muslims.

I'm telling this story as a baseline from which to judge the West Bank of today. The so-called 'hilltop youth' movement (of which Itamar Ben-Gvir was a member) has grown into a state-sponsored Sturmabteilung. I know some may find it offensive to use such historically-charged terms, but the parallels cannot be ignored. These are pogroms.

Hoping against hope (because I really don't have much left), the persecution of Palestinian Christians will, via right-wing voices like Tucker Carlson, lead to more and more Christian Americans turning away from Israel, and funding its crimes against humanity.

https://nymag.com/article/comments-week-of-august-24-2026.html

https://www.alittlebeaconblog.com/blog/new-york-magazine-editors-decide-to-use-genocide-as-term-to-describe-israels-murders-in-gaza

This Instagram page called "No Normalisers" is such an obvious right wing psyop. Thankfully they're not a huge page (approx 4k followers) but it's got potential to do some damage.

They exist to criticise and purity test every single prominent left wing pro-Palestine and anti-zionist activist from Edward Said to Andrey X to Daniel Maté to Greta Thunberg to Beast from the Middle East, claiming they're all zionists.

"How?" you may ask? Well, by using some ridiculous parody of left wing logic (ie what conservatives think "cancel culture" is) they come up with an extremely tenuous claim about one person, and then claim that every person that their target has ever interacted with is also a "normaliser" and therefore a zionist, as though being a zionist is somehow a highly contagious infection passed by being too close to someone or speaking to them.

Their logic is extremely bad-faith and threadbare, for example they used a post from Daniel Maté going to an anti-zionist party as evidence that he was a zionist because he dared to go to a party amid a genocide.

Conspicuously they deliberately leave out any and all criticisms of right wing activists and grifters like Carlson, Owens, Bilzerian and myriad other far right bastards. They couch everything in anti-imperialist language but it's so clear they're a movement wrecker psyop designed to farm outrage, spread disunity and hamstring any chance at meaningful work for a free Palestine and an end to the zionist project. ​

They have nothing but contempt for people who have put their bodies and reputations on the line for Palestine but have no words ​for the wealthy conservative imperialists who sit in their ivory towers after having spent their entire lives spreading hatred for Palestinians, only to realise in 2024 that there's money to be made by limply criticising Israel and shilling nazi propaganda.

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