#ALS Association

[vyorei]

This is one I missed earlier, it's from 19:10pm GMT on the 9th of November 2023, so almost 2 hours ago

This is DEEPLY fucking concerning. It also explains the earlier report about Reuters denying they had prior knowledge too. I can see them using this as 'justifiable cause' for targeting journalists.

In the way they claim Hamas is in every mosque, ambulance, portaloo, I'm waiting for them to start saying the journalists they murder were ones who recorded footage from the 7th.

[mari-oaky]

This is so interesting!

Since this new card is called a "uniform" people are already theorizing that this might be from a dream where Kalim is attending a school different from both NRC and RSA. It does look like he's holding a wand or staff, kind of like the one he uses as housewarden of Scarabia. Maybe in this image he is casting an enhanced version of Oasis Maker?

[garadinervi]

Gaza City's Women's Associations, mid-1940s

(via Nur Masalha نور ﺍﻟﺪﻳﻦ مصالحة, via Nayla Fayez al-Wa'ri نائلة الوعري)

[isa-belle1367]

Lighting an incense and drinking tea while reading a book in my room because it's what Malik would have wanted.

[linterteatime]

pwease don't repost! the sillies™

[the-travelling-witch]

I hope this isn’t to Off topic, but in TWST any characters u like that u can see a song matching with? I wanna get into the fandom and characters and I think seeing what people think matches with them would be awesome :0

i’ll try my best but i’ve noticed i actually don’t have a good grasp on my playlists rn, i feel like i’m forgetting so many songs i could assign ㅠㅠ

i’ll write down what i can for now though and might add some songs later when they pop back into memory ^^; (also i’m trying not to put their respective disney songs in here)

night raven college

うっせぇわ - ado

i was just a kid - nothing but thieves

welcome to the dcc - nothing but thieves

start again - one ok rock

trouble’s coming - royal blood

social path - stray kids, lisa

house of memories - panic! at the disco

riddle rosehearts

queen of hearts - royal scandal (duh)

just like fire - p!nk

leona kingscholar

everybody wants to rule the world - lorde (idk i think this version fits better than the original)

bad romance - halestorm (same here)

you should see me in a crown - billie eilish

i was king - one ok rock

azul ashengrotto

venus fly trap - marina

greedy - or3o, swiblet (lol)

jade leech

song association 1 / song association 2

floyd leech

crazy = genius - panic! at the disco

silver screen - jonny t, foreign figures

crazy form - ateez

kalim al-asim

god of music - seventeen

sunkissed - khai dreams

jamil viper

daylight - david kushner

happy face - jagwar twin

vil schoenheit

oh no! - marina

classic - mkto

rook hunt

fulenn -alvan, ahez

idia shroud

威風堂々 - vivid bad squad

malleus draconia

the last of the real ones - fall out boy

lilia vanrouge

zukunft pink - peter fox

silver

a dream is a wish your heart makes - lily james

song association

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

By  Brent Scher

A Jewish advocacy group filed a lawsuit on Wednesday charging the Associated Press with “material support of terrorism,” asserting that the news wire made payments to known agents of Hamas.

The National Jewish Advocacy Center asserts that on and after October 7, the date of the Hamas massacre of over 1,200 Israelis, the AP paid for real-time images of the attacks being carried out by photographers who are “known associates” of the terrorist group. Included in the group of images were scenes of Israeli hostages being transported into Gaza, where many of them have since been killed.

“AP’s website gave credit to photographers Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud and Hatem Ali, for taking photographs of the massacre inside of the State of Israel,” the federal lawsuit filed on behalf of the group by attorneys including David Schoen asserts. “These photojournalists are known Hamas associates who were gleefully embedded with the Hamas terrorists during the October 7th attacks, and who sometimes worked for AP.”

“Upon information and belief, AP paid for the real time images of Israeli hostages being taken into Gaza despite having been warned well in advance that at least one of these so-called ‘journalists’ were in fact Hamas affiliates, and despite the clear indications that they were functioning as full participants of the Hamas terrorist squad that conducted the October 7th attack, and not as AP chose to pretend as journalists,” it continues.

[skunkes]

i get worried about how irl Love would affect my art since the entirety of my art is copium fantasy... like ok hello boyfriend number 3

[justinspoliticalcorner]

The Associated Press and Jonathan Lis, Noa Shpigel, Jasmin Gueta, and Ben Samuels at Haaretz:

Israeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to The Associated Press in southern Israel on Tuesday, accusing the news organization of violating the country's new ban on Al Jazeera. The U.S. is urging Israel to return seized AP equipment and reverse its broadcast block on Gaza images, according to senior White House officials.

"We've been engaging directly with the Government of Israel to express our concerns over this action and to ask them to reverse it," a White House spokesperson said. The Al Jazeera channel is among thousands of clients that receive live video feeds from AP and other news organizations. AP denounced the move. [...] "The shutdown was not based on the content of the feed but rather an abusive use by the Israeli government of the country's new foreign broadcaster law. We urge the Israeli authorities to return our equipment and enable us to reinstate our live feed immediately so we can continue to provide this important visual journalism to thousands of media outlets around the world."

The Israel Apartheid State seized Associated Press equipment and shuttered the live Gaza feed by citing the anti-press freedom law used to shut down Al-Jazeera's operations.

This is a very despicable act by the Israeli government.

[vyorei]

Why hasn't the world stopped and asked "why are we asking people from 'another country' for permission to enter?"

[francis-ford-kofola]

Scarface (1983) // Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

[sefarad-haami]

Belgian publisher removes opinion column that described an urge to stab ‘every Jew’ over Gaza

🇪🇸 El 8 de agosto de 2024, la editorial belga DPG Media Group retiró una columna de opinión escrita por Herman Brusselmans en la revista semanal Humo, que incitaba al odio antisemita. En la columna, Brusselmans expresó su deseo de "apuñalar a cada judío que se cruzara" debido al sufrimiento en Gaza. Esta columna provocó una fuerte condena, tanto dentro como fuera de la comunidad judía, y fue descrita por la Asociación Judía Europea como una "incitación al asesinato". Finalmente, la editorial eliminó el artículo de su sitio web tras el creciente rechazo.

🇺🇸 On August 8, 2024, Belgian publisher DPG Media Group removed an opinion column written by Herman Brusselmans in the weekly magazine Humo, which incited antisemitic hatred. In the column, Brusselmans expressed a desire to "stab every Jew he meets" due to the suffering in Gaza. The column sparked widespread condemnation both within and beyond the Jewish community and was described by the European Jewish Association as "an incitement to murder." Following increasing backlash, the publisher ultimately took the article offline.

[chibiranmaruchan]

Cute exhibition 8/13.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Israel used a US weapon in a March airstrike which killed seven healthcare workers in southern Lebanon, according to a Guardian analysis of shrapnel found at the site of the attack, which was described by Human Rights Watch as a violation of international law.

Seven volunteer paramedics, aged between 18 and 25, were killed in the 27 March attack on an ambulance center belonging to the Lebanese Succor Association in the town of al-Habariyeh in south Lebanon on 27 March.

The Guardian examined the remnants of a 500lb Israeli MPR bomb and a US-manufactured Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) recovered by first responders from the scene of the attack. Pictures of the shrapnel sent by The Guardian were further verified by Human Rights Watch and an independent arms expert.

JDAMs are guidance kits produced by US aerospace company Boeing which attach to 500-2,000lb “dumb bombs” and convert them into GPS-guided precision missiles. They have been key to Israel’s war effort in Gaza and Lebanon, and have been one of the most requested munitions from the US.

Shrapnel recovered from the al-Habariyeh attack included a fragment with writing identifying it as a “bomb MPR 500”, as well as the parts of a JDAM which clip the bomb to the guidance system and remnants of its motor.

Human Rights Watch said that its own investigation concluded that the strike on the healthcare center was unlawful and should have implications for US military assistance to Israel.

“Israel’s assurances that it is using US weapons lawfully are not credible. As Israel’s conduct in Gaza and Lebanon continues to violate international law, the Biden administration should immediately suspend arms sales to Israel,” said Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher for Human Rights Watch.

Five days after the attack on healthcare workers in Lebanon, Israel killed another seven aid workers employed by the World Central Kitchen in Gaza. This attack led to global outrage and was called a “serious mistake” by Israel.

The revelation of Israel’s use of US weaponry in an unlawful attack comes as the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, is set to deliver a report to Congress on 8 May on whether he finds credible Israel’s assurances that its use of US weapons do not violate US or international Law.

The Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen said that the attack on al-Habariyeh should be reflected in Blinken’s report to Congress.

“These reports are deeply concerning and must be fully investigated by the Biden administration, and their findings should certainly be included in the NSM-20 report that is due to be submitted to the Congress on May 8,” Van Hollen said in an email.

Public pressure is mounting to limit or stop US weapons transfers to Israel as more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s military operation in Gaza, launched in response to Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack which killed 1,200 Israelis.

In Lebanon, the attack on al-Habariyah shook the country, with hundreds showing up to pay homage at the funeral of the young medical workers: twin brothers Hussein and Ahmad al-Shaar, 18; Abdulrahman al-Shaar, 19; Mohammad Hamoud, 21; Mohammad al-Farouk Aatwi, 23; Abdullah Aatwi, 24; and Baraa Abu Kaiss, 24.

The ambulance center had been set up in the small village in south Lebanon at the end of October, as cross-border clashes between Hezbollah and Israel began to intensify.

The airstrike came without warning between 12:30 and 1am as the volunteers were on call for the night shift. No fighting had been reported in the area that day.

The 500lb bomb leveled the two-story building, with the force of the blast hurling four of the volunteers from the center and trapping three others under the rubble.

An Israeli military spokesperson said that the airstrike in al-Habariyeh killed a “prominent terrorist belonging to Jamaa Islamiya”. Jamaa Islamiya is a Lebanese Islamist political group which also has an armed wing that has fought alongside Hezbollah against Israel since 7 October.

A representative of Jamaa Islamiya said that while some of the paramedics belonged to the group, none of them were members of its armed wing.

The Guardian asked the Israel Defense Forces which of the paramedics they killed were militants and what steps the IDF took to minimise civilian harms in the strike, but received no reply.

Three first responders, as well as witnesses present during the rescue operation, said that only seven bodies were recovered from the rubble: those of the medical volunteers.

“We examined every centimeter looking for parts of bodies and their possessions. We saw nothing military-related. We knew [the victims] personally, so we could identify their remains,” Samer Hardan, the head of the local Lebanese civil defense center who participated in the rescue operation, said.

The volunteers, most of them young university students, joined the ambulance corps after the war started – out of what their parents said was a sense of duty to their community.

“I told them that it was dangerous to do this type of work, but they said that they accepted the risk. I don’t know what Israel was thinking – these were young people excited to help others,” said Kassem al-Shaar, whose twin sons Ahmad and Hussein were killed in the airstrike.

Under the 1997 Leahy law, the US defense and state departments are prohibited from providing assistance to foreign security forces when there is “credible information” that they have committed gross violations of human rights.

The Guardian reported in January that internal state department policies have spared Israel from application of that law.

A spokesperson for the US National Security Council said it was aware of reports of the attack on al-Habariyeh and that it was in touch with its Israeli counterparts to get more information.

“The US is constantly working to ensure defense articles provided by the US are being used consistent with applicable domestic and international law. If findings show violations, we take action,” the spokesperson said.

According to Josh Paul, a non-resident fellow with Democracy for the Arab World Now, a democracy and human rights non-profit, and former state department official involved in the weapons transfer process, arms transfers containing munitions like JDAMs are approved with little scrutiny.

“The state department has approved several of these transfers on a 48-hour turnaround. There is no policy concern on any munitions to Israel other than white phosphorus and cluster bombs,” Paul said.

Israel has relied heavily on US transfers of large dumb bombs, particularly the 500-2,000lb MK series, and accompanying JDAMs to fight Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. According to Paul, JDAMs have been some of the “key items” Israel has requested from the US in the past six months.

Human rights groups have raised concerns about Israel’s use of these dumb bombs – and the potential complicity of the US in any misuse of the weapons by retrofitting them with guidance kits.

In December, Amnesty International called on the US to stop arms transfer to Israel after it found remnants of JDAMs in two attacks in Gaza which killed more than 43 people.

Since 7 October, Israel has killed 16 medical workers in Lebanon, including 10 in a single day at the end of March. Medical personnel are protected under international law and targeting them is considered a war crime.

In the same period, 380 people have been killed in Lebanon, including 72 civilians. On the Israeli side, 11 soldiers and eight civilians have been killed.

“My sons wanted to do humanitarian work, and look what happened to them. Israel wouldn’t dare to do what they did if it wasn’t for the US standing behind them,” al-Shaar said.