[DHAKATRIBUNE] Adviser Mohammad Nahid Islam has said that he had left a video message calling for armed struggle in case of defeat or a mass killing carried out by the loathesomeSheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated... 's government on August 5.
Nahid, who has been one of the coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement leading the mass uprising, made this remark as a special guest during a prayer and discussion session in memory of martyr Nasib Hasan Rian.
The program was held at the Health Ministry conference room on Tuesday.
In the video, he said: ''If a massacre occurs today (on August 5), we will call for armed struggle. We might not return, but you all will continue to fight. I had sent a video to some journalists. If I don't return today, if we do not achieve victory today, then this is our last message. We were all prepared for death, and we still are."
Nahid said that everyone was ready to become deaders during that time.
''Nasib announced on Facebook and erupted into the streets, telling his family that he might die today (on August 5). For those of us in the field, this was our reality."
[NYPOST] The teenager accused in a stabbing rampage that killed three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England has been charged with producing the deadly poison ricin and now faces a terror offense for possessing a jihadi training manual, police said Tuesday.
Axel Rudakubana,
…more fully Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, the Wales-born, Moslem son of Christian immigrants from Rwanda who fell prey to previously undiagnosed Sudden Jihad Syndrome and attacked a girls’ Taylor Swift dance party in Southport with a knife …
18, who is charged with murdering three girls and stabbing 10 other people in July, produced the deadly poison ricin that was later found in his home, Merseyside Police said. Police also found he had a computer file with an al-Qaeda training manual titled: ''Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants.''
Ricin is derived from the castor bean plant and is one of the world's deadliest toxins. It has no known vaccine or antidote and kills cells by preventing them from making proteins.
Police stressed that the July attack has not been classed as a ''terrorist incident,'' which would require a motive to be known.
Rudakubana, who police said was born in Wales, already faced three counts of murder over the July deaths of Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Bebe King, 6, in the seaside town of Southport in northwest England.
Southport is near Liverpool. Separately, note the contrast between his childhood image and how he appeared in the courtroom in August.
He also has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder for the eight children and two adults who were maimed.
The stabbings were used by far-right activists to stoke anger at immigrants colonists and Moslems after misinformation spread on social media identifying him as an asylum seeker and misreporting his name.
Violence spread from Southport and led to rioting across England and Northern Ireland that lasted a week.
#5
so now you see the problem of LEGAL migration
and people BORN in the country who are citizens (you can't strip it) but are the children of migrants
and here's the bad news: Islamists send their kids to Islamic school and so they hate your culture and carry their own culture with them for 5 and 6 and 9 generations down
They won't normalise, they are here to colonise YOU
Okaaaay…The timing of this is exceedingly odd. First, the attack was fully thirty years ago, so why announce a reward now? And second, why announce it less than a week before election day, when the Biden-Harris administration has been doing their best to protect Iran and Iran’s catspaws from Israeli retaliation for current attacks? The only thing I can think of is that the IDF came across compelling evidence of Hezbollah culpability as they took possession of Hezbollah files in one of the tunnels — and managed to pressure the administration into offering a reward for information.
[IsraelTimes] Offer is welcomed by relatives of the 21 victims, most of who were members of the Central American country’s Jewish community
The United States on Tuesday offered a $5 million reward for information about a 1994 plane bombing in Panama blamed on Lebanese terror group Hezbollah that killed 21 people.
Alas Chiricanas Flight 901went kaboom! midair after taking off from an airport in the Caribbean province of Colon.
All those onboard — mostly members of the Central American nation’s Jewish community — were killed, including three Americans.
"The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence has assessed that Hezbollah was responsible for the bombing of AC 901," a statement released by the US State Department and Washington’s embassy in Panama said.
"Following the attack, an individual by the name of Ali Hawa Jamal, who also died in the bombing, was identified as the suspect who carried the bomb aboard the aircraft," it said.
The offer was welcomed by relatives of the victims.
"Knowing that the United States and the world justice system have not forgotten this case is extremely important," Ana Karina Smith Cain, whose grandfather died in the attack, told AFP.
"It was an extremely tragic day of indescribable pain for the families of the victims. Hopefully, at some point, those responsible can be brought to trial," she added.
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The #FBI is seeking information on the bombing of Alas Chiricanas Airlines Flight 00901 on July 19, 1994, in Panama, that resulted in the death of three U.S. citizens. The U.S. Department of State is offering a reward of up to $5 million: https://t.co/nadYP8Mmn2pic.twitter.com/GEaqsZHLKr
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"Following the attack, an individual by the name of Ali Hawa Jamal, who also died in the bombing, was identified as the suspect who carried the bomb aboard the aircraft," it said.
Hat tip to Hez now held captive in Israel and to their skilled interrogators.
This is all a tempest in a teapot. Watching wedding videos from that region (northern Caucasus) which which do include even Muslim wimmin, we can see wimmin of all ethnicities, modestly but elegantly dressed as they perform dances to help celebrate the nuptials. Very eye catching.
[KavkazUzel] The ban on hijabs in schools was discussed at a meeting of State Duma deputies from Chechnya with a colleague from the Vladimir region. Adam Delimkhanov promised to achieve the repeal of the "provocative order."
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, the Mufti of Chechnya, Salah Mezhiev, called the ban on wearing hijabs in educational institutions in the Vladimir region unconstitutional, and the Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus, which he heads, called for a legislative ban on regions adopting such decrees.
The Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus (CCMC) has spoken out against the ban on wearing religious clothing in schools. However, it had previously approved the ban on wearing the niqab. The Coordination Center reminded that it is necessary to separate the hijab and the niqab. On July 13, the center appealed to the President of Russia and the State Duma with a request not to adopt the bill of its Deputy Speaker Vladislav Davankov on the ban on religious clothing. The muftis of the North Caucasus stated that this decision violates the rights of believers. The government rejected the bill.
State Duma deputies from Chechnya met with Vladimir Region deputy Igor Igoshin to discuss the ban on wearing Muslim clothing in schools in the Vladimir Region, State Duma deputy from Chechnya Adam Delimkhanov reported today on his Telegram channel. He emphasized that the meeting was held on the instructions of the head of Chechnya.
"The ban on the hijab in the Vladimir region is a gross violation of the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of religion. Covering up this discrimination with concern for appearance in educational institutions is an absolute provocation. Such measures can cause mistrust of state institutions, increase the feeling of alienation among religious citizens and lead to disunity. The rights of believers are values without which the sustainable development of the country is impossible. There is no doubt that we will achieve the lifting of this ban and will fully defend the rights of Muslims," he said.
"The outcome of the meeting was a decision to work together to achieve the repeal of the provocative order," he emphasized.
A ban on schoolchildren wearing elements demonstrating religious affiliation, including niqabs and hijabs, was introduced in the Vladimir region to prevent conflicts between students after appeals from parents, said Vladimir Kuimov, deputy governor of the region. According to him, a similar order existed before, but now the regional Ministry of Education and Youth Policy has decided to clarify it by mentioning Islamic attributes in the document.
"We have had various cases. They emphasize their religious affiliation. And it is not about the school and the teachers, the issue is among the children. Children react differently. On this basis, some conflict situations occur, therefore, absolutely within the law, the Ministry of Education and Youth Policy decided to clarify its own order," RBK quoted him as saying today.
[IsraelTimes] Spain’s Interior Ministry says it is canceling a contract to buy ammunition from an Israeli firm, widening a Spanish pledge not to sell weapons to Israel to include purchases too.
Cadena Ser radio earlier reported that the Guardia Civil police force had agreed to buy more than 15 million 9-mm rounds for six million euros ($6.48 million) from Guardian LTD Israel.
Spain said it would stop arms sales to Israel in October 2023 when Israel’s war with Hamas started in Gaza, after the terror group’s brutal onslaught in southern Israel.
“The Spanish government maintains the commitment not to sell weapons to the Israeli state since the armed conflict broke out in the territory of Gaza,” it says in a statement. “Although in this case it is an acquisition of ammunition, the Interior Ministry has initiated the administrative procedure to cancel the purchase.”
The ministry says Israeli companies will also be excluded from any outstanding tenders.
The contract was tendered in February and awarded on Oct. 21, with two of the three lots awarded to an Israeli company, it adds.
[NewsMax] The Biden administration's FBI and Department of Homeland Security reportedly warned state and local law enforcement agencies of domestic snuffies seeking to disrupt the general election.
The two government agencies issued a Joint Intelligence Bulletin, which was reviewed by NBC News.
The bulletin identified potential targets, which include candidates, elected officials, election workers, media members and judges involved in election cases.
The outlet said potential threats include physical attacks and violence at polling places, ballot drop boxes, voter registration locations, rallies, and campaign events.
The bulletin said three domestic murderous Moslem attacks and two disrupted plots have been aimed at government and election officials since Jan. 6.
"The United States remains in a heightened, dynamic threat environment and we continue to share information with our law enforcement partners about the threats posed by domestic violent mostly peacefulsnuffies in the context of the 2024 election," DHS spokesperson Mayra Rodriguez told NBC News in a statement.
"Violence has no place in our politics, and DHS continues to work with our partners to evaluate and mitigate emerging threats that may arise from domestic or foreign actors."
Federal intelligence agencies regularly provide reports such as the Joint Intelligence Bulletin.
Earlier this month, CBS News reported a bulletin warned of potential violent mostly peaceful extremism and hate crimes committed in response to the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... gunnies on Israel.
The agencies found that the one-year mark of the attack "as well as any further significant escalations" in the Israel-Hamas war "may be a motivating factor for violent mostly peacefulsnuffies and hate crime perpetrators to engage in violence or threaten public safety."
The latest Joint Intelligence Bulletin was among several intelligence documents obtained through public records requests by Property of the People.
Ryan Shapiro, executive director of the nonprofit group focused on government transparency, said the violence warnings "are not typical election threat intelligence."
"The documents are unmistakably a product of a radically heightened threat environment," Shapiro added, NBC News reported.
The latest bulletin said such things as letters containing white powder and online harassment and threats recently have increased, according to the FBI.
The bulletin also mentioned perceived election fraud, immigration, LGBTQ issues, child sacrifice abortion, and the liquidation attempts against former Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... as reasons for recent calls for violence.
[Breitbart] Americans should prepare for “unrest’ if former President Donald Trump completes the greatest political comeback in modern American politics, Democrats told the Wall Street Journal on Monday.
The potential for Democrats to perpetrate political violence undermines their narrative that Republicans, and especially the America First movement, are a threat to democracy.
“I think there’ll be some violence. I think there’ll be workplace fights. There’ll be fights at kids’ birthday parties. I think they’ll be protests and will turn violent,” Mark Halperin recently told Tucker Carlson.
Resistance groups, according to the Journal’s Joshua Chaffin and Valerie Bauerlein, believe citizens should be “bracing for unrest” if Trump wins:
Across America, more than a dozen progressives in various positions of influence told The Wall Street Journal that they are dreading the prospect of Trump’s return to power, and dismayed that half the country might see a completely different reality than they see. Some are bracing for unrest. On a recent evening, more than 200 people joined a Zoom meeting titled Mass Training For Women’s Safety Teams—hosted by a Women’s March veteran who noted its timing amid “escalating political violence.”
Others are channeling their nervousness into action: They are planning to attend Women’s Marches scheduled in Washington and beyond on the Saturday before the election. In Boston, they are joining pill-packing parties, where volunteers fill boxes with abortion kits to mail to women in red states with strict limits. “We feel like we’re doing something,” said Erin Gately, a 47-year-old physician assistant who last time took to the streets to protest after Trump’s election, but says this time she would focus on tangible actions like protecting reproductive rights.
…
Laurie Woodward García, a South Florida activist, founded People Power United during Trump’s presidency to champion progressive causes, and, in her words, “stand up to fascism.” Her biweekly online seminars, some scheduled for after the election, explore the consequences if a President Trump were to enact Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda he has distanced himself from. Each session has drawn about 500 viewers.
“We’ve looked at different countries,” Melissa Fiero, a Democrat activist told the Journal. “I really think it’s going to be that bad if he wins.”
Halperin described how some Democrats might react, outside of violence, if Trump defeats Vice President Kamala Harris. “It will be the cause of the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country,” Halperin told Carlson:
I think tens of millions of people will question their connection to the nation, their connection to other human beings, their connection to their vision of what their future for them and their children could be like. And I think that it will require an enormous amount of access to mental health professionals. I think it’ll lead to trauma in the workplace, … I think there’ll be alcoholism. There’ll be broken marriages:
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#3 - Not excusing his stupidity, but why were Harris-Walz banners outside a polling location? Isn't there a defined buffer of "no politicing"?
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Harris-Walz banners outside a polling location? Isn't there a defined buffer of "no politicing"?
In Ohio the campaigns are permitted to put lawn signs X’ from the polling place, with nothing allowed beyond that. At my polling place, the trailing daughters’ elementary school, we usually have a few people from each party standing on the sidewalk just beyond that limit, handing out sample ballots and answering any last questions voters might have about their candidates and ballot issues — very quiet and dignified. But given how fraught this election is, I can see more excitable voters getting together to chant at the opposition… or idiotic high school kids who can’t yet vote acting out. Machete Boy should be slapped down so he learns to think before acting.
[IsraelTomes] Trump running mate appears to suggest Israel would support a war with Iran, highlights growing presence of GOP isolationist wing that is now represented on the presidential ticket
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance indicated Saturday that US and Israeli interests won’t always overlap,
…that makes sense…
tying this stance to his opposition to a war with Iran.
Against the backdrop of Israel’s recent retaliatory strike against Iran, Vance was asked during a podcast interview on "The Tim Dillon Show" how the Trump administration would handle what could turn into a major war in the Middle East
Vance began his answer by stressing that Israel has the right to defend itself before adding — "But America’s interest is sometimes going to be distinct."
"Sometimes we’re going to have overlapping interests, and sometimes we’re going to have distinct interests. And our interest very much is in not going to war with Iran. It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country," added the running mate of former president Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... Vance did not go as far as to say that Israel backs a war against Iran,
…The Little Satan has been fighting a shadow war against Iran since about 1980. Not because they want to, but because the alternative is to be wiped out. America doesn’t face the same risk, though Iran would dearly love to conquer The Great Satan, too…
but his decision to stress his opposition to a potential war with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... immediately after arguing that US and Israeli interests don’t always overlap suggested that Jerusalem would support such a war.
The remark highlighted the growing isolationist wing within the Republican Party that, in Vance, is now represented on the presidential ticket as well. The argument also appeared to run counter to ones voiced by more hawkish members of the GOP who have urged Israel to retaliate massively against Iran, including by targeting its nuclear facilities, in what could trigger all-out war.
Vance went on to argue that pro-Israel Americans were even "more militaristic" than Israelis in their response to Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... ’s October 7 onslaught.
"The Israelis were like, ’Okay, Hamas just attacked us. We’re gonna go really screw Hamas up... There’s a humanitarian side of that, and we want to try to minimize civilian casualties.’ But you had Americans saying, ’This attack happened on Putin’s birthday, so we need to go to war against Russia. And the Iranians funded part of this, so we need to go to war with Iran,'" Vance said.
"I don’t want Iran to get a nuclear weapon, and I think we should be... using all the influence we have to encourage them to not have a nuclear weapon... But we just have to be smart about it," he continued.
"This is where smart diplomacy really matters," Vance explained, pointing to the Trump administration’s brokering of the Abraham Accords in 2020.
He described the normalization agreements Israel signed with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco as an alliance of countries that "kind of hate each other" but decided to collaborate because they have a shared enemy in Iran.
Instead of the US starting a war with Iran, "let the Israelis and the Gulf Arab states provide the counterbalance to Iran," Vance maintained.
"America doesn’t have to constantly police every region of the world. We should empower people to police their own regions of the world. One: We would save a lot of money. Two: We’d save a lot of focus."
As long as that means America wouldn’t micromanage the Israeli effort like the Biden-Harris administration has insisted on doing, I’m all for it.
The Republican vice presidential nominee went on to argue that Vice President Kamala Harris once a marijuana-busting Caliphornia DA talks publicly about trying to minimize Paleostinian civilian casualties while advancing a policy "that maximizes those casualties."
"They say that they’re pro-Israel, but they’ve pursued the pathway that has prolonged the war as long as possible, which is bad for Israel. They seem to be sleepwalking us into a war with Iran. It’s the dumbest of all possible worlds," he added.
#2
Looking at Iran's word and deeds since 1979, objectively Iran is a mortal enemy of the US and all Western nations.
Iran doesn't want war, Iran wants to transform the entire world into an Islamic slave empire, which would necessitate the elimination of any non-Islamic polity.
Even though the Soviet Union's official (insincere) doctrine for Soviet-Western relations had been "Peaceful Coexistence" since Khrushchev the Soviet threat was still correctly recognized.
Iran hasn't accepted coexistence since 1979.
The choice for Western nations is appeasement and submission or war, symmetrical or asymmetrical.
Vance should be asked if he would subjugate US residents to elements of Sharia law in order to temporarily avoid conflict with Iran.
#4
I've said it for decades. There are really only 2 revolutionary powers in the world.
#1 is the USA
#2 is Iran
But the USA claim to be revolutionary for human freedom
Iran is for Alan to be the only god permitted for all with the top Shia in Iran the only spokesman for Alan.
[NYPOST] The daughter of a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, resident and German-Iranian dual citizen who was executed by Tehran on Monday slammed the Biden-Harris administration and German government for their alleged incompetence in saving him.
Gazelle Sharmahd posted a video of herself Monday night — dressed in all black — as she silently mourned her father, Jamshid Sharmahd's, death while tying her hair back in a similar fashion to female protesters in Iran's Women, Life, Freedom movement.
Gazelle criticized the silence from President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant.... , Vice President Kamala Harris former senatrix from California, 2020 Dem presidential hopeful and ultimately Joe Biden's intended successor , Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose governments she labeled ''incompetent and corrupt.''
''What have they (#US & #German) done for 4 years when their German-American national was kidnapped in Dubai and taken to Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... by force?'' Gazelle posted on X.
''As an American-German national was brutally and shamelessly kidnapped, tortured, held hostage for 4 years and (if confirmed) murdered by the biggest terrorist Organisation in the world, apparently for retaliation of Israeli strikes on the regime, this must have immediate and unmistakable grave consequences for them now,'' she added.
Iranian officials announced that Jamshid, a dissident who lived in Glendora outside L.A. with his family, was executed Monday morning after the Islamic republic found him guilty of planning a 2008 attack on a mosque that killed 14 people and maimed over 200 others, in a trial slammed by Amnesty International as a sham.
Gazelle and her family have long disputed the claims from Tehran, spending years advocating for Jamshid's release after he was kidnapped during a flight layover in Dubai in 2020.
He was notably excluded in the 2023 deal that saw $6 billion — which are currently frozen — handed to Tehran in exchange for five prisoners because as the 20-year US resident was not an American citizen.
The heartbroken daughter has long-claimed that her father, a green card holder, should have been included in the deal over the Levinson Act — named after former FBI agent Robert Levinson who disappeared in Iran, which provides protections to US citizens and US nationals taken hostage abroad.
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on her first stop in the US, discusses how Oct. 7th was tragic for Israel but actually also positive for Israel since Israel can now continue with their colonial plan.
Another tentacle of the PLO’s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement works to drive Zionists out of the public square.
[IsraelTimes] strong>Letter vows signatories won’t work with entities complicit in ‘overwhelming oppression’ of Palestinians; Howard Jacobson pans ‘staggering’ attempt to silence writers
Irish author Sally Rooney is among some 1,000 authors and literary professionals who signed a pledge to boycott Israeli cultural institutions, the UK’s Guardian newspaper reported Monday.
Authors Arundhati Roy and Rachel Kushner
…I have tried to read their writings, but cannot see the appeal. What some call lyrical others deride as self-consciously pompous — but at least they can preen themselves on loudly claiming all the “right” opinions…
also signed the letter vowing to boycott Israeli cultural institutions that “are complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelming oppression of Palestinians.”
”Come, Culture Leaders — let us all flatter our consequence and be old-fashioned Mean Girls together!”
According to the report, the signatories pledge not to work with Israeli publishers, festivals, literary agencies and publications that are “complicit in violating Palestinian rights,” including “whitewashing and justifying Israel’s occupation, apartheid, or genocide.”
The campaign was organized by the Palestine Festival of Literature.
Since 2008 a project of the Palestinian Authority — formerly known as the PLO — in the West Bank, because Hamas in uninterested in anything not oriented toward Allah and jihad.
Other leading authors panned the letter.
Booker Prize-winning author Howard Jacobson said he had “scarce belief that one writer, that one person from the artistic community, should dream that he or she has a right to silence another. It is staggering,” the UK’s Times newspaper reported.
Award-winning author Lionel Shriver charged that the letter aimed to “intimidate all authors into withdrawing their work for consideration at Israeli publishing houses and refusing to participate in Israeli festivals,” the Times said.
Rooney is a long-time Israel critic who has refused to allow her Israeli publisher to translate her books into Hebrew.
UK Lawyers for Israel, a legal advocacy group, posted to social media platform X that the letter “makes false allegations against Israel and commits its signatories to engage in a discriminatory and illegal boycott of Israeli cultural institutions.”
In a missive to the Publishers Association, UKLFI said the letter is “plainly discriminatory against Israelis,” citing the UK Equality Act 2010 and other discriminatory legislation from around the world.
“This boycott is plainly discriminatory against Israelis. The authors do not impose similar conditions on publishers, festivals, literary agencies, or publications of any other nationality,” the UKLFI wrote.
The development came against the backdrop of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
Though to be fair, this kind of anti-virtue signaling goes on no matter what might be happening in the real world; what they object to is the Jewish state itself, not whatever Israel might or might not be doing at the moment.
#4
From the Internet Archive if you want to read it One Hundred Authors Against Einstein(1931)... You can always find a collection of idiots and/or bigots to self-identify.
[IsraelTimes] Lawmakers vote 29-7 to pass into law a bill prohibiting the establishment of diplomatic missions in Jerusalem that are not embassies.
The legislation, an amendment to the the Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel, is sponsored by MKs Ze’ev Elkin (New Hope) and Dan Illouz (Likud) and stipulates that no new consulates will be established in Jerusalem, while the government will encourage the establishment of foreign embassies in the city.
The bill will not affect the status of already existing diplomatic missions in the Israeli capital.
“Jerusalem is the core of our sovereignty,” Illouz states, asserting that the new law “makes it clear once and for all that Jerusalem is ours and is not for sale. It’s a historic law that joins other historic laws passed in recent days.”
Elkin says that “those who wish to establish a foreign mission in Jerusalem will have to act according to this law and the mission will be obligated to provide service to the residents of the State of Israel. Jerusalem is the eternal and indivisible capital of the State of Israel and no country will be allowed to challenge our sovereignty in the united Jerusalem.”
Most countries do not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and base their embassies in Tel Aviv, often opening smaller consulates in Jerusalem. Currently, five countries — the US, Guatemala, Honduras, Kosovo and Papua New Guinea — have embassies in Jerusalem.
[IsraelTimes] Heavily outnumbered, four Gideonim fighters engaged gunmen who planned to drive pickup trucks into central region; battle held up attackers until IDF arrived
A small group of coppers from an elite counter-terrorism unit battled against Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Lions of Islam at a key location during the October 7 attack of last year, preventing them from penetrating deep into central Israel, the commander and members of the unit said in a Sunday report.
Two members of Unit 33, known as Gideonim, were seriously injured in battle at the Black Arrow war memorial near the Gaza border.
In an interview conducted at the location, three members of the unit, including its commander, told Channel 12 how the events unfolded on that day, when Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... led thousands of Lions of Islam in a cross-border attack on southern Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians.
Due to security protocols, the officers could not be identified in the report or reveal their faces.
The terror assault began with a 6:32 a.m. massive rocket barrage at the country, after which Lions of Islam blasted gaps in the security boundary with the Gaza Strip. Driving through the breaches in vehicles, the button men roamed through southern Israel, overrunning military posts and communities where they massacred or kidnapped those that they found.
The Unit 33 commander, who was identified in the report only by the Hebrew initial "Ayin," said he was at home when his wife woke him to tell him there had been a rocket barrage from Gaza and something unusual was going on.
Watching television updates, he said he saw a video of Lions of Islam riding pickup trucks in the border town of Sderot, where they killed at least 38 people, 18 of them coppers from the local station.
For Ayin, that was already what he termed "Stage C" of the four levels of penetration security forces had prepared for, in which "A" is a border fence breach, "B" is Lions of Islam reaching nearby border communities, and "C" when they go beyond that into cities. "Stage D," he explained, would mean Lions of Islam reaching major Israeli cities, such as Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.
"To me, it looked like somewhere between ’C’ and ’D’," Ayin said.
He immediately ordered all unit members to gather in the center of the country, prepare their gear, and then mount their armored vehicles.
In a moment of grim prescience, Ayin described how he took a photo of the gathered members of the unit, having already sensed "that I won’t see them together."
Most of the unit then headed south, toward the chaotic areas where hundreds of Lions of Islam were lying in ambush along the roads.
Already an hour after they were scrambled, members of the unit made contact with Lions of Islam on Route 232 and found themselves in a firefight, while also managing to help injured civilians to safety.
A group of four unit members, Ayin among them, arrived at the Black Arrow memorial, about 900 meters from the Gaza border. Unbeknown to them, the gathering of Lions of Islam that they happened upon had been planned for the purpose of pushing further into the country.
Ayin described a convoy of some 30 pickup trucks and other vehicles carrying heavily armed Lions of Islam arriving at the site.
He quickly instructed the officers with him to stay hidden until backup could be brought in.
However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the officers were already surrounded by terrorists, who opened fire on them, injuring two. The officers shot back, killing Lions of Islam and pinning down others even as ever more button men arrived.
As the officers tried to hold their position, taking fire from two sides, reinforcements from the army arrived and the Unit 33 members found themselves caught in the crossfire.
Moving to safer cover, they were able to direct the army reinforcements to fire at the Lions of Islam until eventually they were overcome by the Israeli forces.
The action apparently prevented scores of Lions of Islam from reaching far into the country, the Channel 12 report said.
It’s good to see Israel so quickly taking care of her wounded warriors.
[IsraelTimes] The Defense Ministry’s Rehabilitation Department says it has received some 12,000 soldiers since the beginning of the war on October 7, 2023, including those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
According to the Defense Ministry, some 5,200, or 43% of those received by the rehab centers amid the war are suffering from PTSD.
Some 14% are defined as having moderate to severe injuries, including 23 with severe head injuries, 60 amputees, and 12 who lost their eyesight.
Among the 12,000 soldiers, around 66% are reservists.
The ministry says that some 1,500 soldiers have been maimed twice in the war, meaning they returned to service after being treated by the rehab department and were maimed a second time.
The rehab department is also working with some 62,000 maimed veterans from previous wars. It forecasts that by 2030, the center will be treating some 100,000 people, at least half of them suffering from PTSD.
[IsraelTimes] Israel’s credit Automated Bank Services says this morning’s credit card payment problems experienced by people around the country were the result of a cyberattack.
Starting at 7 a.m., as a result of a denial-of-service attack, many bodies connected to the company through the internet experienced disruptions in processing transactions.
It says regular service was restored at 9:50 a.m.
ABS does not offer details on the identity or motive of the attackers.
It rather depends on what the Gaza mission is, given that UNWRA aids and abets — and is staffed by — Hamas. Certainly UNWRA jeopardizes Israel’s mission to exist and thrive. And also the hope of Gazan Palestinians to live in peace with their neighbours on both sides.
[NEWARAB] UK Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer voiced concern that Israel's parliamentary vote on UNRWA jeopardises humanitarian efforts in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Speaking to BBC World Service, he emphasised the UK's intent to urge Israel to reconsider its stance on UNRWA, both publicly and in private.
Falconer rejected the notion that UNRWA should be dismantled or replaced, underscoring the agency's vital role in supporting Paleostinian communities.
In other words, Minister Falconer agrees with the UNWRA’s core value that Jews are icky and the world would be a better place if the Palestinians were properly trained to kill them all.
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Perfidious Albion (who imported more than a million Arabs into area given to it by League of Nation to establish Jewish national home) gotta perfid!
[NEWARAB] Hamas senior official Sami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... said on Tuesday that the group was open to discuss a deal that secures an end to the war in Gaza and a complete Israeli army pull-out.
The terror group appeared to stick to its previously issued demands on Tuesday, however, when senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri confirmed that the group had been examining various options but reiterated that it would not accept any proposal that did not stipulate the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip.
“The movement has confirmed it is open to any deal or ideas that ends the suffering of our people in Gaza and achieve a permanent ceasefire, and the occupation’s withdrawal from all of Gaza Strip,” he said in a televised address.
He added that any agreement must end the blockade of the Strip, allow unrestricted relief aid and the reconstruction of Gaza, and achieve a swap of Israeli hostages in Gaza for Palestinian security prisoners in Israel.
The demands were largely in line with those presented by the terror group over the last year.
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[IsraelNationalNews] World-renowned boxing champion Floyd Mayweather visited United Hatzalah headquarters in Jerusalem on Tuesday afternoon, marking his second visit this year. Mayweather came with close friends and business partners, Jona Rechnitz and Avi Hiaeve, just a few days after donating $100,000 to the organization to fund protective equipment for volunteers.
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[IsraelTimes] Israel’s attack on Iran likely damaged a base run by the paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that builds ballistic missiles and launches rockets as part of its own space program, satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press today show.
The damage at the base in Shahroud raises new questions about Israel’s attack early Saturday, particularly as it took place in an area previously unacknowledged by Tehran and involved the Guard, a powerful force within Iran’s theocracy that so far has remained silent about any possible damage it suffered from the assault. Iran only has identified Israeli attacks as taking place in Ilam, Khuzestan and Tehran provinces — not in rural Semnan province where the base is located.
Satellite photos earlier analyzed by the AP of two military bases near Tehran also targeted by Israel show that sites there that Iran uses in its ballistic missile manufacturing have been destroyed, further squeezing its program.
High-resolution satellite images from Planet Labs PBC taken for and analyzed by the AP show the damage at the Guard’s Shahroud Space Center in Semnan, some 370 kilometers (230 miles) northeast of the Iranian capital, Tehran. Semnan also hosts the Imam Khomeini Space Center, which is used by Iran’s civilian space program.
The images show a central, major building at the Shahroud Space Center had been destroyed, the shadow of its still-standing frame seen in the image taken this morning. Vehicles could be seen gathered around the site, likely from officials inspecting the damage, with more cars than normal parked at the site’s main gate nearby.
[IsraelTimes] Iran’s government plans to raise its military budget by around 200%, the country’s Government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani says, according to state media.
The planned defense budget increase is part of a budget proposal that has been submitted by the government to parliament for approval.
“A considerable raise that amounts to 200% has been witnessed in the country’s defense budget,” Mohajerani said, giving no further details.
The statement comes as Israel and Iran have entered direct conflict, with Israel on Saturday striking Iran in retaliation for an Iranian missile barrage against Israel on Oct. 1.
Iran also backs multiple proxy groups in the region, including terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
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[IsraelTimes] Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says Hezbollah maintains only some 20% of the rocket and missile capabilities that it had before the war.
"I estimate the remaining capacity of the missiles and rockets to be in the order of 20%, and also it is not organized in the way that it used to be organized, in a way that [Hezbollah] could fire [large] volleys," he says during a visit to the IDF Northern Command base in Safed.
"There is a deep connection between our strike in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and what is happening to Hezbollah. Iran understands that Hezbollah does not have the ability to respond, and Hezbollah understands that it cannot rely on Iran," Gallant adds.
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Back in my local gov't bureaucrat days, there was an job appointment class called TLT - Temporary Limited Tenure. It was generally limited to 30 days. So that's my guess.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NYPOST] The teenager accused in a stabbing rampage that killed three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England has been charged with producing the deadly poison ricin and now faces a terror offense for possessing a jihadi training manual, police said Tuesday.
He also has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder for the eight children and two adults who 
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..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
[IsraelTimes] Defense Minister 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
