A judge has told the Metropolitan Police it cannot stop an Iranian dissident who displays a sign branding Hamas as terrorists from attending pro-Palestinian protests.
Under strict bail conditions imposed by the force, Niyak Ghorbani, who has been arrested three times during his counter-protests, would have been prevented from going near any central London demonstrations relating to Israel and the conflict in Gaza.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have detained a container ship near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.
Footage provided to the news agency Associated Press showed commandos rappelling down from a helicopter and raiding the ship.
The vessel has been linked to Zodiac Group, a shipping company owned by Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer.
What.. the f*ck is going on?
The new Pro-Hamas rector of @UofGlasgow Ghassan Abu-Sittah just declared in front of students:
“Our will be the laughter of our children”
Abu-Sittah declared “utmost loyalty” to Hamas on social media and was caught at the… pic.twitter.com/Z30jDVIo95
— Kosher (@KosherCockney) April 12, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
The government of Canada has upgraded its travel advisories to Israel and the West Bank, instructing Canadians to avoid all travel amid escalating tensions in the region.
Previously, the federal government had advised Canadians to “avoid non-essential travel” to Israel and certain areas of the West Bank.
Harvard University’s gender and sexuality department will offer a wide-range of classes next semester: Gender as Technology; Gender and Sexuality in Korean Pop Culture; Feminism in the Age of Empire; Gender, Race and Poverty in the United States; Decolonization; Love’s Labors Found: Uncovering Histories of Emotional Labor; and more. Decolonization is as relevant to feminist theory as the songs of BTS are to Korean gender roles in Harvard’s gender studies department. As NR’s George Leef has written, gender studies is “not really an intellectual enterprise, but ideological posturing,” one that “is not about trying to understand the world, but is all about trying to change it in certain ways.”
Self-hating Jews, Queers4Palestine, and conservatives walk into a bar and ask for the strongest drink available. The bartender says, “Are you sure? It’s pretty potent.” One from the groups replies, “We’re not afraid of extinction; we’re embracing it!”
Now that you have wiped the laugh tears from your eyes and your knees have stopped hurting from the slapping, let’s look at why this joke works.
It’s wild when you think about it: news organizations were taking Hamas propaganda as if it were verified and accurate information. No one learned from the Gaza hospital fiasco, the first wall the media crashed into when they erroneously said that an Israeli airstrike hit this facility. The reality was it was the terrorists’ own rocket salvo, fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The New York Times had to print a retraction, but the damage was done. Now, Hamas has openly admitted they inflated the death toll in Gaza, and the media is AWOL
h/t XC
In “How to Do Things with Words,” philosopher J.L. Austin makes a useful distinction between two kinds of speech acts, the referential and the constative. The referential delineates an actual state of affairs; the constative establishes not a quality but a social function. Austin offers an analogy from baseball: the ball may travel knee-high across the center of the plate, a perfect strike, but if the umpire calls “ball,” that’s how it registers on the scoreboard and operates in the game.
Biographies of UN employees who took part in the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel.
Satellite photos of Gaza schools constructed atop buried terrorist bunkers.
Hamas rocket launchers installed within metres of marked United Nations compounds.
Israel’s prime minister is to meet top officials to prepare for a possible attack by Iran, local media say.
Tensions are high over the possibility that Tehran will retaliate for an air strike that killed senior Iranian commanders nearly two weeks ago.
Several countries have now warned their citizens about travelling in both countries.
US officials have told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, that a major attack on Israel could happen imminently.
Israel is braced for a potentially major escalation in its conflict with Iran after a US intelligence assessment warned that Tehran could in the coming days order a strike on military and government targets inside the country.
Israeli ministers have vowed that if Tehran takes direct military action then they will respond with their own strikes on Iranian territory, opening the door to a full-scale regional war in the Middle East.
Iran has always been a cautious, calculating regime which has long sought to avoid direct, open conflict with Israel and instead relies on a network of proxies based in southern Lebanon and Syria to harass the country with sporadic rocket and drone attacks.
The UK Statistics Authority has been urged to review the Palestinian Casualty figures in the Gaza War after several analyses indicated that the figures have been fabricated.
UKLFI Charitable Trust (“UKLFI CT”) has written to Sir Robert Chote, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, inviting it to assess the quality of the Palestinian casualty statistics. These statistics are produced by the Hamas controlled Ministry of Health, and then circulated by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) as well as other UN bodies.
“Our commitment to Israel’s security against these threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad,” Presidentish Joe Biden said at a joint press conference Wednesday with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. “Let me say it again: ironclad.”
Not sure I trust the words of “Biden of Kabul”.
A Moroccan asylum seeker told police he knifed a pensioner to death in the street and stabbed a Christian convert out of “revenge” for Israel killing children in the Palestinian conflict, a court heard.
Alid Ahmed’s actions, the week after the Hamas attacks, were motivated by “the conflict in Gaza and to further his desire that Palestine would be free from the Zionists”, Teesside Crown Court was told.
