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Star of David

Harvard-linked study finds Israel 'disappeared' nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children


The Cradle.co
Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00 UTC
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© AASurviving Gaza Strip
The study by a Ben Gurion University professor uses data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to highlight a severe decline in Gaza's population since October 2023.

A study published via the Harvard Dataverse reveals that Israel has "disappeared" at least 377,000 Palestinians since the start of its genocidal campaign against the Gaza Strip in 2023.

Half of this number is believed to be Palestinian children.

The report was written by Israeli professor Yaakov Garb, who used data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to show how the Israeli army's siege of Gaza and indiscriminate attacks on civilians in the enclave have led to a serious drop in its population.

The 377,000 Palestinians who are unaccounted for due to Israel's genocide are approximately 17 percent of the Gaza Strip's entire population, which now stands at about 1.85 million. Prior to the war in Gaza, the strip's population was estimated at 2.227 million. While some are displaced or missing, a significant number are believed to have been killed by Israeli forces, according to the report.

Comment: How many? We may never know. Mass murder to the last Palestinian is Israel's genocidal commitment.

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Star of David

The Jewish supremacy at the heart of the Zionist project

Maura Finkelstein
Mondoweiss
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:36 UTC
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© @IDFSpokesperson X/TwitterIsraeli tanks carve a Star of David into a field in Gaza during Israel's ongoing ground invasion of Gaza. This photo was shared by Daniel Hagari on the @IDFSpokesperson X/Twitter account on November 17, 2023.
Ideas of Jewish supremacy have been central to the Zionist movement from its beginning. Just as we call out white supremacy in the United States, we must call out Jewish supremacy in occupied Palestine.

For the past 20 months of genocide, the Israeli military has regularly carved the Star of David into Palestinian soil, spray painted them onto walls and buildings like on Jenin's Freedom Theater and the Qatari Consulate, drawn them onto children's books and Islamic texts, shaved them onto the heads of Palestinian political prisoners, and emblazoned them across military equipment. Several recently released Palestinian political prisoners were forced to wear shirts with the Star of David on their chests. In a November 2024 Mondoweiss essay, Anna Lipman wrote that she stopped wearing her Star of David necklace because "it has become a symbol of supremacy and fascism."

These spectacles of Jewish supremacy are not new. Even before this latest and accelerating chapter of Israel's genocide of Palestinians began in October 2023, the Star of David was regularly weaponized by Israeli soldiers and settlers as a form of intimidation, land theft, and overt physical violence. When I was in East Jerusalem in the summer of 2018, I saw many Palestinian homes that had been stolen and occupied by Israeli settlers. The doors were spray-painted with the blue six-pointed star. In August 2023, a Palestinian man in East Jerusalem was beaten and branded with the Star of David. To avoid calling this Jewish Supremacy denies the motivations behind Israel's genocide in Gaza, as well as the reality that Israel fails to be the inclusive democracy it claims to be. It is instead an occupying colonial force that operates as a theocratic Jewish ethnostate.

Comment: . Finkelstein traces the development of why Zionists do think they are above the rest of humanity, and are entitled to do as they wish to whomever they wish. While the author labors under some liberal talking points and nomenclature, the gist of her essay is spot on

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Bullseye

Vindication for the unvaccinated?

D. Marks
Report From Planet Earth
Sat, 14 Jun 2025 15:29 UTC
Salvador Dali — Geopoliticus Child Watching The Birth Of The New Man
Salvador Dali — Geopoliticus Child Watching The Birth Of The New Man
Truth is not readily confessed

At a recent family gathering, I sat at the dinner table with a group of loved ones for the first time since the COVID-19 fiasco. Most of the cheerful discussion focused on the spectacular event of the week; my mother's 100th birthday.

I was the only person at the table who hadn't had any form of flu for many years, while all of the guests had been ill to one degree or another. Almost everyone had tested positive for COVID at least once over the last few years with accompanying flu symptoms. Although no one in my family was hospitalized or died during the so-called pandemic, they all had been vaccinated repeatedly. As far as I know, my wife and I were the only ones in our families who didn't get any COVID shot and I haven't been inoculated for anything in the last seventy years.

On this happy occasion, the fear, masks, lockdowns, and accusations of the recent past had been mostly forgotten. It was not because the signs and symptoms of the disease had ended, nor that the call for vaccination or testing had been silenced. No one understood why they were still occasionally feeling unwell, with some continuing to report they'd been diagnosed with COVID.
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Arrow Up

Shah-Mat

yalensis
Awful Avalanche
Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:56 UTC
Dear Readers:

Chess
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My Readers being of the intellectual and cosmopolitan type, I don't need to explain the joke to them. About the Russian word "Shah-maty" (chess) deriving (well, ignore the French intermediary) ultimately from the Persian expression meaning "The King has been defeated."

There is a fascinating Proto-Indo-European etymology, with a succulent twist involving a possible Germanic cognate [...] never mind, I'll save that for a different day.

Anyhow, our old friend Evgeny Krutikov is back with this very interesting op-ed. The topic is the heir to the Iranian throne, why the Israelis are counting on him to replace Ayatollah Khamenei, and why it ain't gonna happen.

One does to admit, however, that Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is the spitting image of his dad:
Reza Pahlavi
© Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA/TACC
When Israel launched its surprise attack against Iran, they hoped that their initial blitz and decapitations would sweep the regime away in short order. And they had this guy waiting in the wings to waltz in and take over.

In Persian, Reza is known as the Shah-Zade, the heir to the throne. He is 64 years old, resides in the U.S., and has called upon the Iranian people to rise up on his behalf, return him to the throne. Where he and his sponsor Israel can get to work dismembering the Persian Empire once and for all, replacing it with obedient, ethnically-based pro-Israel satraps.
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No Entry

'Worst Ally': Army colonel removed from US Joint Chiefs Staff over Israel criticism

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sat, 21 Jun 2025 10:45 UTC
Colonel nathan McCormack
© US MilitaryColonel Nathan McCormack was commissioned as an infantry second lieutenant two months after the US invaded Iraq over false claims of a nuclear weapons program.
A United States Army colonel has been removed from his position on the Pentagon staff supporting the Joint Chiefs after his Israel-critical social media posts were publicized by Jewish News Syndicate (JNS). Until this week, Army Col Nathan McCormack led the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Levant and Egypt branch. That team is part of the Joint Staff J5, which proposes strategies, plans, and policy recommendations to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Within hours of Tuesday's JNS report, McCormack was yanked from his post, with a Pentagon official telling JNS:
"The individual is being returned to [the Army] while the matter is being investigated...The information on the X account does not reflect the position of the Joint Staff or the Department of Defense...Our global alliances and partnerships are vital to our national security, enhancing our collective defense, deterrence and operational reach."
Here are the published comments that led to McCormack's removal:
  • May 2025: "Netanyahu and his judeosupremacist cronies are determined to prolong the conflict for their own goals: either to remain in power or to annex the land."
  • June 2024: "The more Israel's death cult escalates toward Hezbollah, the more we will see show-of-force attacks like this and 13 April."
  • June 2024: "The U.S. has not been an honest broker. We have overwhelmingly enabled Israel's bad behavior."
  • May 2024: Amid talk of pushing Gaza residents into other countries, McCormack wrote, "[Israel] wants to expel them and cleanse 'Eretz Israel' of ethnic Palestinians."
  • April 2024: "I've lately been considering whether we might be Israel's proxy and not realized it yet. Our worst 'ally.' We get literally nothing out of the 'partnership' other than the enmity of millions of people in the Middle East, Africa and Asia."
  • Oct 2023: "I agree that Israel has an absolute right to respond militarily, and that civilians may legally be caught in the crossfire, but you are ignoring the requirement of proportionality. Israel's responses always (always — not hyperbole) disproportionately target Palestinian civilians."

Comment: Opinion is stronger than truth, a fallacy to live by.

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Skull

Nap time & fun rooms: Inside Gen Z's insane expectations for a workplace

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:34 UTC
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According to a new Resume.io survey, nearly one in six Americans under 28 won't even look at a job unless it comes with a designated nap zone.

Yes, nap pods — the latest dealbreaker for Gen-Z job hunters, according to the NY Post.

"It's clear Gen-Z isn't shy about voicing what they want from today's workplace," said Amanda Augustine, career coach and resident expert at Resume.io, which polled 1,000 professionals nationwide. "For many, it goes beyond salary and health insurance."
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Skull

UK's eugenics Parliament: Days after abortion vote MPs back killing the sick

Oliver JJ Lane
Breitbart
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:49 UTC
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© NurPhoto Agency/Getty ImagesPro and anti-assisted dying campaigners gather outside Houses of Parliament to demonstrate their support and opposition as Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill reaches Third Reading debate and a critical vote on the Bill as a whole in the House of Commons in London, United Kingdom on June 20, 2025.
Britain ruled by "a death cult" decries Peter Hitchens after labour-dominated Parliament votes for 'assisted dying' by 23 votes, only days after it also voted in favour of decriminalising women aborting their own children up to the moment of birth.

The House of Commons, Britain's elected Parliamentary chamber backed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill by 314 votes to 291 against, giving the it a majority of 23. The bill won't become law immediately and has to clear other Westminster hurdles but the remaining steps are essentially pro forma and the so-called assisted dying bill is now all but certain to be law.

Under the provisions of the bill, terminally ill adults will be permitted to apply to be killed, the application being considered by a panel of two doctors, a social worker, a lawyer, and a psychiatrist.
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TV

FOI disclosure: UK gov't secretly used BBC & ITV soaps for 'underhanded' vaccine 'propaganda'

Jon Fleetwood
JonFleetwood.com
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:21 UTC
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FOI documents show covert shaping of public opinion, coercing compliance. How much control does the State really have over our media?

New Freedom of Information (FOI) documents confirm what many long suspected: The UK government secretly used popular soap operas like EastEnders and Coronation Street to push vaccine propaganda during the pandemic, raising urgent questions about how much influence the state holds over British media, and how far officials are willing to go to manipulate public thought, opinion and behavior under the guise of public health.

The findings echo May 2021 revelations that scientists on the UK government's behavioral advisory committee admitted they used fear-based "totalitarian" tactics to control public behavior during COVID-19, describing the approach as "unethical," "dystopian," and a form of "mind control."

They also mirror an October 2024 U.S. House investigation that found the CDC and Biden administration used a $900 million COVID campaign to "manipulate Americans" with "deeply flawed" messaging, "overpromising" vaccines "without evidence," and funding Big Tech companies to "track and monitor Americans."

What other views and choices are being shaped today by government-scripted entertainment?
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NPC

Insane leftists "devastated" by SCOTUS decision to end child trans experimentation

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 21 Jun 2025 18:38 UTC
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The abject insanity of the political left cannot be overstated when it comes to the issue of transgenderism. The notion of gender fluidity is built upon a swampy foundation, with a handful of questionable scientific papers primarily backed by pharmaceutical companies acting as the only evidence that trans "identity" has any basis in reality. At bottom, the transgender debate is a perfect example of what happens when science becomes political.

When corporate greed meets ideological cultism there is little room for objective analysis. Progressives took an extreme minority of aberrant mental health cases (people with the psychological illness of gender dysphoria) and turned them into an international movement to deny basic biology and psychology.

No society should ever enable or embrace mental illness as a cultural ideal. In particular, vulnerable children should be kept far away from emotionally unstable, morally bankrupt political zealots. The western world is well aware of what happens when cult movements get their hands on little kids.
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Heart - Black

UK MPs vote to decriminalize late-term abortion in "horrific" legislation


BBC
Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:18 UTC
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MPs have voted to change abortion legislation to stop women in England and Wales being prosecuted for ending their pregnancy.

The landslide vote to decriminalise the procedure is the biggest change to abortion laws in England and Wales for nearly 60 years.

Women who terminate their pregnancy outside the rules, for example after 24 weeks, will no longer be at risk of being investigated by police.
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