"Buried in the messages between National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other cabinet members is a horrible demonstration of narrative engineering.

"While the legacy media fixates on ‘classified information’, the real story is actually not the incompetence of these people but instead how they casually discussed spinning the bombing of Yemen—an already battered and famine-ravaged nation—into a palatable story for the American and global public. Let’s have a look":
https://thespectaclemag.substack.com/p/how-to-sell-a-massacre by Deaglan O'Mulrooney

Daniel L. Davis is a retired United States Army officer. He was one of the earliest military officers to publicly criticize the War in Afghanistan.
Davis is a Senior Fellow at Defense Priorities, a Foundation of the Koch brothers.
Davis was selected by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for appointment as deputy director. On Wednesday, the Jewish Insider magazine ran a story against Davis ; neoconservative radio jock Mark Levin helped spread the Jewish Insider story to his 4.9 million followers; within hours, Davis was informed there would be no job.

https://thecradle.co/articles/gabbard-withdraws-war-critic-from-top-intel-job-following-smear-campaign-by-pro-israel-groups

Long read: British rule in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s enabled Zionist colonisation at the expense of Palestinians.

A.Bustos, "How Britain supported Zionism and prevented Palestinian freedom": https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-supported-zionism-and-prevented-palestinian-freedom/ @palestine @histodons

"BBC staffers reveal editor's 'entire job' to whitewash Israeli war crimes"
at The Cradle: https://thecradle.co/articles/bbc-staffers-reveal-editors-entire-job-to-whitewash-israeli-war-crimes

An internal @eu document may strip European foreign ministers of “plausible deniability” in Israeli war crimes in Gaza, experts said:
https://theintercept.com/2024/12/23/eu-report-israel-war-crimes-complicity/

Besonders berührend fand ich eine Installation aus Videos einer Vielzahl von verschiedenen jüdischen Menschen, die jetzt in Deutschland leben, teils andere Muttersprachen sprechen, konvertiert sind, religös oder nicht religiös sind, als Kind den Holocaust erlebt haben, zugewandert sind.

"Mesubin" - die Versammelten - der Regisseurin Yael Reuveny.

Wir schulden ihnen allen Sicherheit, Solidarität und Anteilnahme.

#niewiederistjetzt #GegenjedenAntisemtismus #StandwithIsrael
#antisemitism

"Spreading fear and silencing
[…]
"As it silences and threatens to sanction any dissent against Israel, its apartheid system, and its crimes against humanity as antisemitic, it is obvious that the government and parliament intend to spread fear of being branded antisemitic, being criminalised and persecuted for expressing your opinion as a basic individual citizenship right.
[…]
"From the very beginning of Zionism in the late 19th century, #Germany has joyfully and wholeheartedly embraced what Theodor Herzl offered to the “West”.

"By demanding support for the Zionist movement from European powers, he submitted the offer that in Palestine the Zionists would “form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of #civilisation as opposed to barbarism”.

"God’s chosen people": https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-not-holocaust-guilt-entrenched-racist-superiority