Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@social.cleverlibre.org

I doubt there will ever be a political cartoon as accurate or timeless as this

Barbarity, Civilisation
René Georges Hermann-Paul (1899)

"We refuse the false choice between Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom; between Jewish identity and ending the oppression of Palestinians. In fact, we believe the rights of Jews and Palestinians go hand-in-hand. The safety of each people depends on the other’s.

We also call on governments & civil society in the US & across the West to stand up against the repression of support for Palestine.

And we refuse to allow such demands to be suppressed in our names."

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-dangerous-conflation/

Open letter from members of the Australian Jewish community:

We as Jews in Australia, living on unceded First Nations lands, are still processing the grief, shock and trauma of October 7 and the weeks since. Many of us have lost loved ones, still fear for those held hostage, and all of us are mourning the atrocities committed by Hamas. Yet the violence that has continued to spill forth from that day, and the tragic murder of thousands of Palestinian civilians, is not, and will never be, the answer to our grief.

We as Australian Jews are calling for an immediate ceasefire. We demand that our Jewish communal organisations do the same.

Once violence enters into the world it can not be put back. It seeps into our minds, scars our bodies, and poisons the earth. As many of us know, we carry it for generations. The fundamental goal of this moment should be Pikuach Nefesh – the preservation of human life. We must have compassion and empathy for all victims of violence, not just the ones we know. There is no violent resolution to this conflict. There is no violent pathway to ensuring Jewish or Palestinian security.

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This is an outrage 👇
https://normalislandnews.substack.com/p/mps-furious-un-has-called-out-israels

While you were sleeping, #windEnergy reached 47% of the National Grid's electricity demand. https://winderful.uk

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Warning as patients hospitalised after taking fake Ozempic weight-loss drug | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/ozempic-weight-loss-jab-patients-hospital-b2437045.html

#Ozempic
#FakeOzempic

I want to sound optimistic but we are so incredibly fucked right now.

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MAGA Logic:
-Abortion: Ban it
-Marijuana: Ban it
-Drag shows: Ban it
-Immigration: Ban it
-Public Schools: Ban it
-Dialogue on racism: Ban it
-Books by Black or LGBTQ authors: Ban it
-Guns: BANS DON’T WORK YOU SNOWFLAKES
#Lewiston

Conservative logic:

A man shouldn't have rights to love a man.

A man should have rights to shoot people.

@QasimRashid https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/111304231938468413

"I’m not a religious Jew, but I know that the three pillars of Zionism are truth, justice and peace. And I look at present day Israel and I don’t see in the government any of these values.

Netanyahu is an arch liar, an inveterate liar, there is no justice for Palestinians and there is no interest in peace, only in oppressing and suppressing and keeping down the Palestinians."

Avi Shlaim,
Israeli-British Historian.

Elon Musk's war on Wikipedia doesn't prove the value of the people's encyclopedia, but it's some of the best evidence yet.

Am I mad as a box of frogs? Absoluitely!
Am I grumpy?
Without a doubt!
Do I have a sense of humour?
You better believe it!
Will I cut off poeple without second thought?
Yep!

I was going somewhere with this, but my brain has just shit itself, so I'm going to go splash in puddles.....

#RandomThoughts