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About 100 pro-Palestine protesters have been disrupting traffic at an Ascot Vale intersection as thousands of punters continue to make their way to Flemington Racecourse ahead of the running of the Cup, according to police.

Police say the protesters arrived about 11am at the Epsom Road, Ascot Vale Road and Racecourse Road roundabout and caused traffic disruptions.

Two protesters, including a woman who climbed onto the roof of a white van and refused to get down, were pepper-sprayed and arrested, according to police.

Police say the incident remains ongoing, with about 80 protesters at the scene, and they have arranged for the van to be towed away.

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The Mosaic Community, the orthodox Jewish religious organization who most Danish Jews belongs to and who is treated as representing all Jews in Denmark has reported a significant increase in antisemitic incidents since the Al-Aqsa Flood. Their report describes several of the incidents and gives an insight in what is really behind the numbers we read in the media.

Physical violence is rare and there are no examples of systemic antisemitism or antisemitism done by employers, bureaucrats, cops or in similar relations with unequal distribution of power. Most of the incidents involves threats and slurs. All of the incidents described (except, perhaps, an incident where a Jew experienced having stuff thrown at a window displaying a menorah and a zionist flag) describes problematic racist behaviour that targets Jews. To the credit of the Mosaic Community, none of the incidents described are disingenuous labeling of anti-zionism antisemitism.

The motivation for the incidents can be placed in several categories. There are examples of what could be termed cultural antisemitism, like people making casual remarks about Jews being misers. Then there is the really nasty stuff where Jews are being threatened, harassed and assaulted by neonazis with a clear exterminationist goal. But what seems to be the most common motivation is misguided anti-zionism where people are justifiably appeled and enraged by zionist atrocities in Palestine and then misattributes them to Jews in general. Often a lot of these antisemitic incidents are provoked by the victim making pro-zionist statements and the perpetrator responding by making threats and insults directed against Jews in general.

If the purpose of the zionist occupation of Palestine is to keep Jews safe from antisemitism and if the driving factor of most antisemitism in the world is misguided anger over said occupation then one could be provocative and ask if the Zionists are not doing a piss-poor job by working hard to make all Jews look like genocidal maniacs.

The final chapter of that CIAnarchist saga

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Video of desperate Zelensky: "If you can't give us some financial support, okay please give us credit and we will give you back money."

US carried out strike on facility in eastern Syria: Pentagon

The Pentagon said the targeted facility was being used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and affiliated groups.

In a statement, the Pentagon said the “precision self-defense strike” was carried out by two US F-15s in response to attacks on American personnel in Iraq and Syria over the past weeks.

The US also said the targeted facility was being used to store weapons.

“The President has no higher priority than the safety of US personnel, and he directed today’s action to make clear that the United States will defend itself, its personnel, and its interests,” the Pentagon statement read.

This is the second US attack on facilities in Syria since the war in Gaza began.

precision self-defense lethal aid was administered to the region

Raisi in SA

https://www.rt.com/news/584220-israel-gaza-hamas-attack/

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has called on Islamic governments to designate Israel as a “terrorist organization” due to its ongoing military operations in Gaza.

“Islamic governments should designate the army of the occupying and aggressor regime as a terrorist organization,” Raisi said at the Joint Arab Islamic Extraordinary Summit in Riyadh as Middle Eastern leaders convened to discuss the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Raisi also called on Islamic countries to cut “any sort of political or economic relations” with Israel, as well as the introduction of a trade boycott “especially in the energy field.”

Raisi’s arrival in Riyadh on Saturday was the first time an Iranian head of state had visited Saudi Arabia since diplomatic ties between the two countries were normalized in a Beijing-brokered deal in March.

"Algerian Parliament member "Zakarya Belkhir زكيرا بلخير" calls upon Algerians to donate money to the resistance"

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the report of all ICU patients dying was miscommunication, "only" 5 babies in incubators and 7 of the patients in the ICU https://twitter.com/wafa_Gaza/status/1723762062227050529

https://twitter.com/BlackRedGuard1/status/1715928880328872322 / https://nitter.net/BlackRedGuard1/status/1715928880328872322

At Anti-"Israel" March in D.C., Explicit Expressions of Support for Terror and Antisemitism

The ADL has been to an anti-genocide march in Washington DC to look for expressions of antisemitism. And while they managed to find some actually problematic stuff like a placard talking about someone "pulling the strings" of genocide Joe, they also managed to find lots of other stuff, including:

Lamis Deek, a leader with the anti-Zionist group Al-Awda, called Israelis a “cult of torturers” who enjoy inflicting pain on children [...] She also venerated terror; called to “dismantle every institution of Zionist violence in the world;”

One poster replaced the Jewish Star of David in the Israeli flag with an emoji of feces, suggesting Israel be thrown in the garbage.

Raja Abdulhaq, a New York City-based political organizer and anti-Israel activist, said that an aim of Israel’s “war on Gaza” is to stifle political movements that oppose capitalism, playing into historic themes about Jews and money.

An attendee carried a poster calling Zionism “a cancer to this planet.” An overwhelming majority of Jews consider Zionism to be an integral part of their Jewish identities (regardless of their views about specific Israeli policies).

An attendee carried a sign that read, “Down with Zionism” and an Arabic phrase that translates to “Death to Zionism.”

Marte White from the Atlanta chapter of Community Movement Builders emphasized the Palestinians’ right to resist “by any means necessary:”

“…one of our principles is to stand in solidarity with other oppressed people fighting for self-determination, especially Palestinians. The first thing I want to get into here is that Palestinians are showing us what decolonization really looks like. This shit is real. Palestinians have a right to rebel. But that means that they have a right to right to free their land from the river to the sea by any means necessary. And I do mean any means necessary.”

An attendee held a poster suggesting support for all forms of action against Israel, including terrorism.

A participant carried a poster with the words “Resistance is Justice” and the likeness of PFLP leader and terrorist Leila Khaled.

Before - I wondered what Israel would say after they intentionally bombed a hospital. Now I think I know.

I believe after they've killed hundreds (or god forbid more) in a hospital they're going to say something like "Our forces took incoming fire from Al-Shifa hospital and we responded." Eventually the Israelis will be forced to admit that they used "from" very elastically. But they'll keep insisting that they had no choice and that Hamas is responsible for the deaths because they use Gazans as human shields, etc.

And of course - once they bomb a hospital - they'll make it clear every single square centimeter of Gaza is in their mind a legitimate target. All they need to do is say "Hamas shot at us from roughly the location of that square centimeter."

Israeli troops engaged in “ongoing intense fighting” near Al-Shifa hospital, army tells CNN

The Israeli army has told CNN it is engaged in “ongoing intense fighting” against Hamas in the vicinity of the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City but refused to comment further on its forces’ proximity to the complex because military activity was still underway.

Medics at the hospital say the complex has been hit by artillery fire, but Israeli army spokespeople in a separate telephone briefing with journalists on Saturday did not address those reports.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-11-23/h_beba0ddf94f484c01ad8703a66778981

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Israeli army shoots at people trying to flee hospital: Aid group | Al Jazeera

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I'm reading worse and worse news every hour. Emphasis mine. This isn't creepy at all.

Israeli military says another hospital has been all but evacuated

We've been bringing you lines today from the Al-Shifa, Al-Quds and Al-Ahli hospitals - and our diplomatic correspondent has news from a fourth medical facility in the besieged Gaza Strip.

This morning, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) briefed reporters on the situation at one of Gaza’s smaller hospitals, the Rantisi specialist hospital in the Rimal neighbourhood.

The IDF said the facility had been all but evacuated in the past few days - with no more than about 20 patients in beds still inside, along with a handful of staff.

An officer identified only as Maj Shai, of the Givati Brigade, said that after several days of trying to persuade civilians to leave the hospital, a large group finally left on Thursday, but only after chaotic scenes.

Video that emerged yesterday showed civilians, waving white flags, leaving the hospital courtyard - but coming under fire and having to retreat back inside. Maj Shai said Hamas gunmen were responsible for the shooting. “Hamas terrorists were shooting at them in order to scare them back in.”

Having identified members of Hamas in the crowd and the hospital, he said his unit decided it was too risky to deploy snipers and let everyone go.

The IDF clearly regards the near-total evacuation of Rantisi hospital as a model it would like to see repeated elsewhere, especially Al-Shifa.

But that hospital is much larger, and the operation there is clearly much more complex.

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Cornell said Slava Ukraine, Slava Israeli and Slava Italy so I don’t know if he has my vote anymore

Al Jazeera - this is the entire update...

~16m ago

Israeli raid in Jenin kills at least 14 people

The rise in the death toll means that 18 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.

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https://nitter.cz/MyLordBebo/status/1722527655713460491?t=DZWOhAuAGFDQQLae3PBOqw&s=19

Do we have a "What is Zionism?" one-page document I can throw at someone? They're "very offended" that I said Hamas changed it's charter to distinguish between fighting Zionism and fighting all Jewish people because they ahve "family ties in Israel" and I just don't want to write a whole fucking thing right now, especially because I'm half-convinced anything I say will blow up the discord. Dude's already pulled out the "Your opinion is invalid because I have family on the ground" thing. : p

Israeli media be like "Tel Aviv struck by 10-mile-wide asteroid travelling at Mach 50; 7 critical injuries and 10 wounded"

has there actually been any video from Hamas showing infantry combat? all the videos I've seen show them destroying vehicles etc.

addendum: is this the occupation forces being too scared to fight an infantry battle? or is it a pragmatic call (they don't really have to, they're safer in tanks, etc). I don't understand how war works.

Heard that the Zapatistas dissolved their autonomous government just now, they need not worry, I got the perfect guy to lead them into the future.

I present to you, the interim autonomous government personified, Juan Guaido!

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What happens if China suddenly decides to dump all US T bonds tomorrow?

It is reported Gennadiy Chastiakov was showing his son a box of grenades he had received as a gift when the incident occurred, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said in a statement on Telegram.

"At first, the son took the munition in his hands and began to turn the ring," Mr Klymenko said Monday local time.

"Then the serviceman took the grenade away from the child and pulled the ring, causing a tragic explosion."

Earlier the Ukrainian army commander-in-chief, General Valery Zaluzhny, said an "unknown explosive device detonated in one of his gifts".

"Under tragic circumstances, my assistant and close friend, Major Gennadiy Chastiakov, was killed … on his birthday," He said on Telegram.

happy birthday, grennadiy!

Funny drama video of Will Stancil getting dunked on by the 🔻 brigades: twitter / nitter

FUCK ISRAEL, FREE PALESTINE, STREAM HOUDINI!!!!!

anyone remember that Jordanian fuel blockade protest? I remember there were hundreds of trucks blocked at the border with Israel for a while, what happened with that? disrupted by Jordan's security forces or still going?