One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain't worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.
Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Denmark's succdem-led right-wing regime intends to clamp down on the right express pro-Palestinian and anti-apartheid views. A new bill proposed by the regime that is likely to pass Denmark's rubber-stamp parliament will slap a statutory extra 50% on top of the punishment for "hate crimes" committed at protests or public meetings. In addition, the police will be enabled to unilaterally declare a nationwide "increased punishment period" during which the penalty for any so-called "hate crimes" will be increased by 50%.
Free expression on the internet is also in the crosshairs of the regime's authoritarian measures. If the bill passes the police will be empowered to demand the removal of any "terrorism-related" material from social media, online media or websites. Service providers will only be given one hour to comply, there is no system of appeals and the current requirement for a judge to sign off on the censorship will be removed, effectively giving the police unchecked powers to remove any material that crosses the regime.
The bill itself is written in abstract legal terms normally used for hate crimes but the regime makes no attempt to hide that the intent is to punish and suppress the movement against apartheid, genocide and zionism. The only example given by the succdem-controlled ministry of justice for when the new powers would be used are so-called "antisemitic hate crimes" relating to the Al-Aqsa Flood.
The regime has consistently been equating anti-zionism with antisemitism. In the remarks to the bills the regime writes that it is intended to suppres so-called antisemitism "generated by a disdain for the state of 'Israel'".
This sort of thing is going to create so much actual anti-semitism. I’ve seen so many people already, who have never really thought about Israel before, think to themselves “as the saying goes, find out who you can’t criticize and that’s who controls you”, and conclude that Israel is the puppet master of all western governments. At that point you’re on the front porch of anti-semitism and the door is wide open.
Well that saying was coined by some neo nazi and the clear intention of it was anti-semitic
I didn’t know that.
Wait until someone figures out that Palestinians are also semites.