LONDON: BBC Middle East online editor Raffi Berg is reportedly considering legal action against British journalist Owen Jones, following accusations in an investigative article that claimed Berg exhibited bias in favor of Israel. The allegations have allegedly triggered a wave of online abuse and th...
LONDON: BBC Middle East online editor Raffi Berg is reportedly considering legal action against British journalist Owen Jones, following accusations in an investigative article that claimed Berg exhibited bias in favor of Israel. The allegations have allegedly triggered a wave of online abuse and threats directed at the editor.
The 9,000-word article, titled “The BBC’s Civil War Over Gaza,” was published earlier in December by Drop Site, an investigative news platform. In the article, Jones cited interviews with 13 current and former BBC staffers, who alleged that Berg “sets the tone for the BBC’s digital output on Israel and Palestine.”
One former journalist was quoted as saying: “This guy’s (Berg’s) entire job is to water down everything that’s too critical of Israel.”
American Democracy works simply by ignoring all evidence of it not being a democracy and calling them exceptions instead of the rule.
Former spooks are back on the airwaves, using old tactics to justify new conflicts in the Middle East ., ,
A network of former intelligence operatives has woven itself into the fabric of right-wing alternative media, amplifying anti-Muslim scare narratives that appear aimed at countering a noted decline in conservative support for Israel since October 7, 2023. Central to this effort is Sarah Adams, a figure promoting conspiracies about a supposed Palestinian-linked Al-Qaeda plot against the West.
On December 12, 2024, Adams appeared on the Shawn Ryan Show for a two-hour interview that quickly amassed over 2.5 million views on YouTube. Shorter excerpts have gained further traction across social media platforms.
The central theme of Adams’s podcast appearance is her assertion that Al-Qaeda is planning a series of large-scale attacks on civilian targets in the West, claiming the Hamas-led October 7 attack was “only the beginning.” She elaborates on the alleged threats while positioning herself as a Pentagon critic, accusing the U.S. government of ignoring its own intelligence.
Throughout the interview, Adams frequently references Hamas, often in contexts where the connection seems tenuous, reinforcing the conflation of disparate narratives under a singular alarmist frame. She even attempted to connect Hamas to the 9/11 attacks, hearkening back to the days leading up to the Iraq War, when fantastic claims were made without being challenged and tenuous connections promoted as evidence of the pressing threats against Americans.
As we know the CIA never violates the law.
The CBS video starts with "This is the scene filmed in in May by CBS news in Gaza" https://x.com/60Minutes/status/1878603779001536611
There is no speculation going on.
I tried searching online. It suggested 155mm artillery ammunition or tank rounds based on the letters. But the pictures of the ammunition looks quite different from the online pictures of the casing. Going to need a weapons expert on this one.
Biden admin was Netanyahu in practice. It would be virtually impossible to be worse than Biden on Palestine except by starting a full blown war in the Middle-East. But that would badly hurt the American economy when all the oil gets blown up.
Prepare for all the liberal newspapers suddenly discovering Israel has been doing war crimes and feeling a lot of sympathy for Palestinians.
Army says air defenses intercepted missile over central Israel - Anadolu Ajansı
At least 11 Israelis were injured early Tuesday while rushing to shelters after a missile launched from Yemen targeted central Israel, according to Israeli public broadcaster KAN.
The Israeli army said its air defenses intercepted the missile before it entered Israeli airspace. Air-raid sirens were sounded across central Israel, prompting hundreds of thousands to seek shelter.
Medical teams treated 11 people for injuries sustained while running to shelters, with four others receiving treatment for panic, the broadcaster reported.
The Houthi group later confirmed that it had carried out the strike, saying that it targeted the Israeli Defense Ministry with a hypersonic ballistic missile.
Trump lesser evil confirmed?
A week before Trump's inauguration, Jerusalem already sees a change in the rules of the game that has broken the deadlock in the hostage negotiations. Unusually, the outgoing Biden administration has let Witkoff lead the process, on the grounds that any obligations the United States undertakes will be incumbent on Trump, not on Biden.
Witkoff is a Jewish real estate investor and developer who is close to Trump. He doesn't have the background of the kind of people who usually fill diplomatic roles. "Witkoff isn't a diplomat. He doesn't talk like a diplomat, he has no interest in diplomatic manners and diplomatic protocols," says a senior Israeli diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity. "He's a businessman who wants to reach a deal quickly and charges ahead unusually aggressively."
In fact, Witkoff has forced Israel to accept a plan that Netanyahu had repeatedly rejected over the past half year. Hamas has not budged from its position that the hostages' freedom must be conditioned on the release of Palestinian prisoners (the easy part) and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza (the hard one). Netanyahu rejected this condition and thus was born the partial deal proposed by Egypt.
The second someone starts showing American war crimes they are a security risk. But Americans somehow still believe in free speech.
Negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire have made significant progress, with a final draft agreement reportedly submitted to both Hamas and the 'Israeli' government for approval, according to a senior official involved in the talks.
The breakthrough came in Doha after midnight following intensive discussions between 'Israeli' intelligence leaders, US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Reuters reported. The Qatari Prime Minister also held talks with Hamas leaders to push for a resolution.
Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman announces that Saudi Arabia plans to commercialize all its resources, including uranium, by enriching it and producing "yellowcake," a key concentrate for nuclear fuel.
According to Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman on Monday, the kingdom intends to commercialize all resources, including uranium.
"We will enrich it and we will sell it and we will do a 'yellowcake,'" the prince announced during a seminar in Dhahran, referring to a powdered concentrate of the mineral needed to make uranium fuel for nuclear reactors.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez calls on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to take a firm stand against the impunity of "Israel" and its allies.
join South Africa’s genocide case against "Israel" before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the court announced on Monday.
"Cuba, invoking Article 63 of the Statute of the Court, filed in the Registry of the Court a declaration of intervention in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip," the court said in a statement.
Also correct me if I am wrong, but I recall seeing the IOF death tool at 800+ a few days ago. Was that a different number?
WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Outgoing President Joe Biden sought to burnish his foreign policy record on Monday and said U.S. adversaries are weaker than when he took office four years ago despite global crises that remain unresolved.
A week before handing over to President-elect Donald Trump, Biden in a rare State Department speech touted his administration's backing for Ukraine against Russia's 2022 invasion and for Israel's wars in the Middle East.
Biden said the United States was "winning the worldwide competition" and would not be surpassed economically by China as had been predicted, while Russia and Iran have been weakened by wars without direct U.S. involvement.
"Compared to four years ago, America is stronger, our alliances are stronger, our adversaries and competitors are weaker," Biden said. "We have not gone to war to make these things happen."
Five Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and 10 others were wounded in northern Gaza on Monday, the military said, raising Israel’s toll in over 15 months of fighting in the Strip to 407.
The army said the troops were killed during operations in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, but offered no other details about the incident that led to their deaths. Another 10 soldiers were injured, eight of them seriously.
Following years of aggressive content removal, Meta’s platforms now host a growing wave of ISIS-linked posts in the aftermath of Assad’s overthrow., Bashar al-Assad overthrow aftermath, Facebook and terrorism-related content, Facebook extremist content moderation, ISIS resurgence Syria, Meta censors...
Following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria, fears of a renewed ISIS insurgency have intensified. MintPress News has uncovered that, despite Meta’s previously strict policies on banning terrorism-related content, ISIS-linked accounts have been posting freely on its platforms.
Although Meta previously removed 26 million pieces of terrorism-related content—an impressive 99% of such material on its platform—MintPress News has revealed that content supporting ISIS, often referred to by its pejorative epithet ‘Daesh’ in the Arab world, is now flourishing on the platform. Many of these accounts are based in regions of Syria historically known as strongholds for the extremist group.
A series of seemingly pro-ISIS accounts have emerged, concentrated in areas such as Binish, Sarmeen, Jarablous, Manbij, Palmyra and Deir Ezzor—regions historically known as strongholds for the terrorist group. New accounts appear daily, with some prominently displaying ISIS flags as their profile pictures.
These accounts frequently post speeches by ISIS leaders, which remain active on the platform and often garner hundreds of likes and comments. These include videos of the group’s fighters parading with weapons in the back of SUVs, attracting significant attention and interaction on the platform.
I thought female birth ratio was higher than males
I would argue the same for Twitter and Facebook. Yet the same people said blocking those was authoritarian censorship.
Americans when China banned their social media:
China is banning our amazing free speech platforms. Censorship! Look at our free speech!
Americans now:
We need to censor social media! Chinese propaganda cannot be allowed to spread! This is a security risk! America must own every social media platform!
Behold the mythical free speech
Reports come after Reuters reported on dozens of UAE flights landing on air strip used to funnel weapons to Sudan
Videos and photos have surfaced online reportedly showing a warehouse of Emirati ammunition and missiles in Wad Madani, Sudan, after the country's military captured the strategic city from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The videos show members of Sudan's military walking around the warehouse, which is filled with large boxes, and one Sudanese soldier saying the weapons all originate from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The Israeli occupation's coalition government votes against a draft proposal to form a commission to investigate "Israel's" October 7 fiasco.
The Israeli government coalition on Wednesday rejected a proposal in the Knesset to establish an "official" inquiry committee into the failures of October 7, 2023, according to Israeli media reports.
Out of the 120 Knesset members, 51 voted against the proposal, while 43 supported it. The vote reflected the presence of those members who attended the session.
During the session, opposition leader Benny Gantz, head of the National Unity party, criticized the Israeli government, stating, "Israelis see your hypocrisy." Gantz accused the government of attempting "two dangerous actions: evading responsibility and eroding trust in the rule of law systems," as quoted by the Israeli Walla news outlet.
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back and enjoy themselves while the United States collapses of its own accord.
“We have intercepted electronic communication indicating that al-Qaeda members are actively plotting to stay out of the way while America as we know it gradually crumbles under the weight of its own self-inflicted debt and disrepair,” FBI Deputy Director Mark F. Giuliano told the assembled press corps. “If this plan succeeds, it will leave behind a nation with a completely dysfunctional economy, collapsing infrastructure, and a catastrophic health crisis afflicting millions across the nation. We want to emphasize that this danger is very real.”
Reading Time: 2 minutes• Caplin was arrested on suspicion of child sex offences following a sting by Stop Stings, who live streamed the confrontation and submitted evidence to police. • Sussex Police confirmed the arrest and ongoing investigation. This follows Caplin’s 2024 suspension from Labour o...
Only last week, Ivor Caplin, the former Labour MP for Hove and Chair of the Jewish Labour Movement—who played a key role in the removal of Jeremy Corbyn—voiced his opinions on the Asian-Muslim grooming gangs debate. Tony Blair’s former Defence Minister and Chair of JML (an organisation with close ties to the Israeli regime) appeared on GB News last Sunday to weigh in on Jess Phillips. Specifically, he addressed Elon Musk’s accusation that Phillips is a “rape genocide apologist” for refusing to reopen an inquiry into Muslim grooming gangs.
Caplin now finds himself embroiled in a scandal of his own. The 66-year-old was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of child sex offences after a sting operation conducted by the vigilante group Stop Stings. Renowned for exposing alleged predators, the group live-streamed their citizen’s arrest of the former Jewish MP on Facebook. The broadcast, spanning over 30 minutes, attracted more than 36,000 views and 3,000 comments.
In a statement, Sussex Police confirmed: “We are aware of footage circulating on social media showing a man in Brighton being detained on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a child. Officers can confirm that a local 66-year-old man was arrested on Saturday, January 11, and currently remains in custody. This is an ongoing and active investigation.”
The more you buy, the more you save!
App plaforms contain propaganda but America wants to control the propaganda. TikTok shows what happens when America does not. Suddenly when presented with different viewpoints not allowed on American platforms, people change their opinion of America. See the censorship on Palestine on American platforms as an example.
Israeli media reported that a powerful explosive device detonated inside a tunnel in Gaza early in the day, resulting in the initial fatalities.
Earlier today, the Israeli Occupation Force admitted to the deaths of two soldiers and the injury of 30 others during battles in Gaza. Subsequent reports now reveal that the toll has risen, with seven Israeli soldiers confirmed dead and 30 others evacuated due to injuries, including 11 in serious or critical condition.
Israeli media reported that a powerful explosive device detonated inside a tunnel in Gaza early in the day, resulting in the initial fatalities. The total number of Israeli soldiers killed since October 2023 has now reached 831, according to Israeli reports.
We already have people praising Liz Cheney.
You could say "I am noticing a distinct lack of Neo Nazis on Lemmy".
To which I say why change that.
Four IDF soldiers were killed and six were wounded during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip this morning, the military announces.
According to an initial IDF probe, the soldiers were hit by an explosive device, as well as gunfire in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun.
