There’s a long history of conspiracy theories in the Arab world re: animals that Israel has supposedly trained to spy on or attack Arabs.

In this 🧵 I’ll share several. Feel free to add more. What’s your favorite? https://t.co/jHixj5QMGE

— Jason Bedrick 🇺🇸🎗️🇮🇱 (@JasonBedrick) June 21, 2024

US officials are concerned that in a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel's Iron Dome air defense system could be overwhelmed, especially in northern Israel

✔️Israel has signaled to the US that it is preparing for a possible ground and air invasion of Lebanon by… pic.twitter.com/0HZwnnYACw

— Global Info Factory (@GlobalInfoFact) June 21, 2024

Malysians should all die because they speak a nonsense bastardization of english

you forgot a few pounds on ur drawing https://t.co/obLzL7zej9 pic.twitter.com/hUuEKjpsVm

— tony (@meowmeowtony) June 18, 2024

Shouk is a restaurant in Dublin that serves "Middle Eastern" food. They have a stall at the Taste of Dublin festival:

Jewish? That's a bit insensitive in $CURRENT_YEAR, but luckily some hairy, smelly & unemployed student foid is on hand to do something about it:

https://instagram.com/reel/C8MPFXaMD2w/

Falafel is cultural appropriation!

It's funny to watch the reactions of the lady working the stall and her customer, who are openly laughing at the protestors

DUR LAUGHING AT GENOCIDE!!!

Even /r/Ireland isn't enough to not nootice that this is kinda antisemitic, but as ever there are a few die hard right-opinion-havers who are willing to bat for the protestors:

This isn't anti-Zionism. It's straightforward antisemitism.

It isn't. It looks like peaceful protest to me. They are listing the actions made by a country that they disagree with. It couldn't be a more straightforward protest.

Now we can argue about the venue for this protest but it has achieved visibility so maybe that's the point. It's not antisemitism just because you don't like what they're saying.

So antisemitism is fine as long as it's peaceful?

It's not antisemitism.

"Protesting" businesses solely because they are run by Jews is antisemitism.

If you can't see that, it's because you are antisemitic.

Sure. Nobody can ever protest anything that you do because you say so.

LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS!

An Israeli peace activist who was seized from her home on 7 October and held hostage for 53 days in Gaza has told the BBC how her ordeal destroyed her belief that peace is possible between Palestinians and Israelis.

"I don't believe in peace, I don't sorry," the Arabic and Hebrew teacher said. "I understand Hamas don't want it."

Ms Sagi lived for decades in the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Israel-Gaza border, trying to help reconciliation efforts by teaching Israelis Arabic to speak to their neighbours.

Ms Sagi describes how when she was first taken into Gaza, she and some other hostages were hidden in a family home with children, but the following day taken to an apartment in the southern city of Khan Younis because it was "dangerous".

When they got into the city, Ms Sagi said, they were taken to a hospital - which she believes was southern Gaza's main hospital, Nasser - and told: "You are staying here."

Ms Sagi said: "People say that they are not involved. They're involved... and getting money for each of us."

Testimony from a number of other released hostages places 10 hostages in total at Nasser hospital, one of whom remains in captivity

Anyone fancy posting to /r/leopardsatemyface ?

Update: I am homeless. https://t.co/ZyJtT4ix6z

— Donut 🇵🇸 (@Donut_tweetz) June 15, 2024

society is doomed

You're all disgusting

"Oh husbant you pro-palestne in pro-isrel family now we are homeress"

Supporting Cmeramn while living in a pro-Sk*bidi Family](https://x.com/SkibidiJumer/status/1737254647021056424)

CW: Abuse

(Please Retweet so I don't get shadowbanned thanks)

1/10

#FreeCameramen

Update: I am homeless.

Supporting Nixn while living in a pro-Knnedy Family

CW: Abuse

Update: I am now homeless.

pic.twitter.com/4sNhjWOGP0
In this episode of the popular Palestinian children's TV show "The Pioneers of Tomorrow" the beloved bee character showed Muslim children how to abuse and torture cats "just for fun".

This Palestinian TV programs were created by Hamas to poison the minds…

— Liza Rosen (@LizaRosen0000) June 18, 2024

/r/vexillology is a subreddit dedicated to flags, and users there constantly post bizarre combinations of different flags along with completely made-up ones. Posts on there often devolve into smug neckbeard politisperging.

Frequently, users on /r/vexillology will post politically loaded flags as neckbeard bait.

Recently, one of these flaggots posted a picture of a sticker that combined the LGBTQWERTY pride flag with the Palestinian flag.

https://old.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/1dftt5n/saw_some_posting_this_on_twitter/

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/vexillology/comments/1dftt5n/saw_some_posting_this_on_twitter/

The thread, of course, immediately became a massive slapfight.

Virtually every single comment on the post became a fiery spergout, for example:

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/vexillology/comments/1dftt5n/comment/l8lgbxu/?context=3

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/vexillology/comments/1dftt5n/comment/l8lnd34/?context=3

https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/vexillology/comments/1dftt5n/_/l8ll6q2/

It was picked up by /r/SubredditDrama: https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1dfwl9v/user_in_rvexillology_posts_a_picture_of_a_sticker/

Of course, the entire /r/vexillology thread was then removed by the jannies.

If someone @'s you 2000 times in the middle of the night, you aren't allowed to ping people to mercilessly dunk on him. It's up to you to sadquit and leave the site.

🇦🇱🇮🇱 Albania's capital Tirana decorated with Israeli flags for the "Israel Cultural Week" event.

The next country is Brazil, which starts on June 21. pic.twitter.com/bzJcPrLVF6

— kos_data (@kos_data) June 14, 2024

https://x.com/Joel85660198024/status/1801670950217273834

https://x.com/hunkydory99/status/1801707718325190788

real recognises real

https://x.com/IsaBardhyl/status/1801663938842739003

https://x.com/ShaClo1/status/1801673631413530855

https://x.com/MarioBojic/status/1801653994659447112

shows up

https://x.com/ErjonD96002/status/1801693382638715112

Please come to Albania

https://x.com/liridonnuli88/status/1801692430032638061

longest ally and defender of

To the Israelis of rDrama @Unbroken @AIPAC_Lobbyist and @H I think?

Be sure to visit Albania because they are friendly country.( I am not Albanian btw)

The OP is Egyptian

The Pride movement, born in protest, is bringing its legacy of activism to the streets to sound off on the Israel-Hamas war.

Across California, queer activists are using the visibility for LGBTQ+ people and rights during June's Pride Month as a way to encourage others to speak up about what is happening in the Middle East.

Among those marching during the 54th annual Los Angeles Pride Parade on Sunday, June 9, will be Code Pink Southeast Los Angeles, a branch of the feminist group Code Pink that advocates for the “liberation of all people,” according to its Instagram. It will push the slogan “No Pride in Genocide,” a nationwide campaign for LGBTQ+ people to support Palestinians. The group also will participate in Whittier's pop-up Pride parade on Saturday, June 15.

Code Pink SELA will be joined at LA Pride by activist group Queers For Palestine LA.

Roots of activism

LGBTQ+ people have a long history of activism. Pride Month celebrates the history of the Stonewall uprising in New York, which started the modern gay rights movement. The violent demonstrations over six nights in 1969 came in response to police brutality and the persecution of LGBTQ+ people.

But the Palestinian cause is a complex one for some in the queer community to embrace, primarily because of the lack of rights in Gaza for those in the LGBTQ+ community.

“As an LGBTQ+ member, it was embarrassing to me to see that these pride parades and festivals were happening and no one in my community was being vocal about what's going on in Palestine,” said Code Pink SELA organizer Glo Mendoza, 36. “I was not OK with the LGBTQ community not showing up for Palestine during these celebrations of our own.”

Mendoza said her goal was to “be a voice for Palestinians” to “educate people in the crowd.”

Most activists support a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict, which started after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel that resulted in about 1,200 deaths and the taking of 250 hostages. Gaza's Health Ministry claims at least 36,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel offensive, which on Saturday resulted in the rescue of four hostages in the largest such rescue operation since the war began.

Code Pink SELA was one of the only groups at past Pride events showcasing calls for a ceasefire, waving Palestinian flags and carrying signs reading “free Palestine” and “Pride has always been a protest.”

Mendoza said the group also appeared at the Long Beach Pride Parade in May and the West Hollywood Pride Parade on June 2. “The whole time we marched, we received an overwhelming amount of support from the crowd,” Mendoza said.

Mendoza said it's important for LGBTQ+ people to speak out and educate themselves and others on “what's currently happening to Palestinian people.”

“The Pride parade is a protest, that's why we believe it was a perfect place to protest,” Mendoza said.

Queers Against Antisemitism

Offering a different LGBTQ+ perspective is the Jewish activism group Queers Against Antisemitism, which has worked to stop “rampant antisemitism” that has increased dramatically since Oct. 7. QAA's slogan is “No Pride in Antisemitism” and the group has been vocal on Instagram about various Pride events across the U.S.

“As supporters of Palestinian rights and firm believers in a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we find it deeply troubling that the leaderships of the pro-Palestinian movement, and those aligned with it, have chosen to remain silent in the face of blatant antisemitism,” said one of the group's posts.

QAA is powered by A Wider Bridge, a group that hopes to “build meaningful relationships with Israel and LGBTQ people in Israel.”

“We need LGBTQ leaders and pride organizers to be clear that everyone is welcome, that LGBTQ Jews and other supporters of Israel will be fully included that they won't gatekeep us,” said Ethan Felson, Wider Bridge's executive director. “We need them to ensure that we'll be safe from heckling or violence, because that's a real fear. We need them to make sure that no one takes our pride away. No one should have a right to do that.”

Felson said the LGBTQ+ Jewish nonprofit group JQ International participated in the WeHo Pride Parade, marching for Zionist queer Jewish people to be visible. They were not available for comment.

Persecution in Gaza

Though LGBTQ+ rights enjoy support in Israel, the queer community faces persecution in Gaza under its British Mandate Criminal Code Ordinance 1936, which bans same-s*x activity. Nevertheless, some in the LGBTQ+ community remain steadfast in their support of the Palestinians.

Israel, they say, is engaged in a “propaganda strategy” to project its progressive image while simultaneously oppressing Palestinians, a tactic they call “pinkwashing.”

“Historically, queer and trans Palestinians have always been part of the fabric of being Palestinian,” said Yaffa AS, a queer and trans Palestinian activist and author who serves as executive director of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity. “And it's really more of the colonial systems that are telling us that we are separate, that we are different.”

Supposedly two very high ranking members of Hezbollah have a meeting with Satan after IDF strikes removed them from existence.

Likely will be considered a declaration of war.