A group of House Democrats led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a resolution Wednesday to halt the Biden-approved sale of $735 million in weapons to Israel.
In addition to Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) joined in introducing the resolution.
Prior to two weeks ago, had aliens landed on Earth, they may have assumed Bill Gates was not just our Supreme Leader, but also a modern-day saint. Not only do major newspapers speak his name in the same breath as Mother Teresa, touting him as one of the most generous people on the planet, he controls large portions of the world’s essential energy, education, and healthcare sectors. Had the U.S. withdrawn from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Gateses would’ve become the agency’s top funders.
I swear by Allah that I’ll carry out [armed] operations
[Crowd:] Oh Oh Palestine
Against the Zionists
That doesn’t even rhyme. Who thought it was a good idea to import these crappy poets?
h/t Marvin
Last Wednesday, the attorneys for former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao filed a motion that should have been headline news on the right side of the internet. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t. No surprise. For the past year, conservative media and political leaders have been shockingly quiet about the flagrant assaults on due process surrounding the death of George Floyd.
Feeling they had to say something about the Derek Chauvin verdict, the Republicans in Congress seemed to take their cues from Pontius Pilate.
A short but “shocking” phone call between the Israeli Defense Forces and a Palestinian in Gaza reveals “the entire conflict in a nutshell,” according to Ben Shapiro.
In the recording, the IDF is attempting to warn about an impending strike, pleading for the man to evacuate the building before the bombing because civilians are present.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot isn’t even hiding the ball at this point. While her city continues to mimic a common dumpster fire, according to multiple reports, she’s decided that being an overt racist is the right path forward. Lightfoot’s spokeswoman asserted that the mayor will only grant interviews to “black and brown people” while refusing to speak to any white journalists.
Each time the Arab-Israel dispute turns violent on Israeli soil, Turks immediately return to their post-truth mode. One newspaper headline proudly says that Palestinian fighters shot 137 rockets into Israel within five minutes. The next headline says Israel is a state of terror because it reciprocated to attacks against its citizens.
“This is how al-Qassam Brigade hit a lifeline oil plant in Ashkelon-Eilat,” one headline said. “Hamas hits, Zionists are burning,” was another. “Rockets shock Zionists.” “Tel Aviv turns into hell: Get worse, bastards!” “Zionists are fleeing Hamas rockets.” And, according to Hamas’ leader Ismail Haniyeh, Gaza militants “have defended Jerusalem.” There are more.
Utah has become the latest state to start the process of banning critical race theory (CRT) from being taught in public schools, with the state’s Speaker of the House convening an extraordinary session of the State House of Representatives to discuss the matter.
Germany’s Interior Ministry has outlawed three organizations accused of collecting money for the militant Iran-backed movement Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Bans against German Lebanese Family, People for Peace and Give Peace came into effect on Wednesday, but had already been pronounced in mid-April.
Police also conducted early morning raids at locations across seven German states, including Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Rhineland Palatinate.
BEIJING (AP) — Israel’s Embassy in China is protesting what it describes as “blatant antisemitism” on a program run by the overseas channel of state broadcaster CCTV discussing the ongoing violence in Gaza and elsewhere.
In a tweet, the embassy said “we have hoped that the times of the ‘Jew’s controlling the world’ conspiracy theories were over, unfortunately antisemitism has shown its ugly face again.”
Former President Donald Trump said that a criminal investigation that was confirmed by the New York Attorney General’s office into the Trump Organization is a “political witch hunt.”
Trump said Attorney General Letitia James, whose office announced the criminal probe Tuesday, said that “there is nothing more corrupt than an investigation that is in desperate search of a crime.”
A group of “Jewish and allied” Google employees on Wednesday called on the tech giant to terminate its contracts with the Israel Defense Forces and formally condemn Israel.
In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, 250 members of the Jewish Diaspora in Tech group called on the company to “heed the requests framed by Palestinian Googlers and center their voices going forward.” The letter also asks Google to fund Palestinian relief organizations, “recognize the pain” of Palestinians in a formal statement, and “reject any definition of antisemitism that holds that criticism of Israel or Zionism is antisemitic.”
… Police confirmed a man and woman were were left injured during the hit-and-run on Saturday night.
But they said they do not believe the horror was deliberate.
The Met said: “Officers attended along with London Ambulance Service and found the pedestrians – a man and a woman – with minor injuries.
Today’s #FreePalestine protests in central London – literally minutes ago – protestor hit by car #hitandrun pic.twitter.com/aWqZhd5VWk
— Merton Mac (@MertonMacB) May 19, 2021
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has banned skinny jeans and mullet hairstyles in his country, Metro has reported citing a report from South Korea-based Daily NK. Sputnik has been unable to verify the claim but according to the British newspaper, he was guided by a fear that foreign fashion influences on local youth may lead to North Korea’s collapse.
Piercings, dyed hair and T-shirts with slogans have also allegedly been banned.
Earlier, South Korean news agency, Yonhap, reported that a state-run North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun warned of the dangers of “capitalist” culture, which has caused socialism to collapse in several countries.
A number of decisions taken by the Biden administration — who were handed peace in the Middle East, US energy independence, secure borders, the blueprint for a booming economy, and American adversaries such as China, Russia and Iran on the defensive — have managed, in four short months, to blow most of that up.
Some of these decisions have apparently emboldened Iran and a number of its terrorist proxies.
First was the decision to revoke the designation of the Iranian-backed Houthi group in Yemen as a foreign terrorist organization.
