#Resistance

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These people are trying to take over every aspect of our lives.

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A Cuban officer smokes a cigar with a member of the Marxist People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) Febuary 23, 1976.

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These are all good points actually.

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by Brendan O'Neill

The lawyers have submitted a 106-page legal application to the home secretary. It wails about how unfair it is that Britain brands Hamas a terror group. Yes, how dare we use the word terrorist to describe a movement that sent thousands of armed hysterics to slit the throats of Jews on 7 October 2023? Hamas is a ‘resistance movement’, the application says, whose aim is to ‘liberate Palestine’. The trouble is, Hamas, that those of us still in possession of a moral compass know what this means: you want to ‘liberate’ the Middle East of its Jews. You want to banish, with savage violence, the Jews from their homeland. And that’s terrorism. Actually, it’s worse: it’s the dream of genocide wrapped in the lie of ‘resistance’.

Hamas’s military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, was proscribed in 2001. Its political wing was proscribed in 2021, when the then Tory government decided that the distinction between the two was ‘artificial’. The proscription means it’s a criminal offence for anyone here to be a member of Hamas or to drum up support for it. Waving the Hamas flag and wearing pro-Hamas clothing is a crime, too. Hamas – brace yourselves for this – is now citing the European Convention on Human Rights against the UK government. Your proscription of our lovely resistance movement is an assault on our British supporters’ ‘freedom of speech’, it says.

Look, I am such a free-speech fundamentalist that I even think people should be free to say they like Hamas. Join it? Absolutely not. Fundraise for it? No way. But spout bollocks about it being a ‘resistance movement’? Yes. Such speech is surely better dealt with in the free and rowdy public sphere than in the courts. My preference would be for Cable Street-style fightbacks against Britain’s witless armies of bourgeois and Islamist sympathisers with Hamas’s neo-fascism. Instead of us phoning the police, they should be phoning ambulances – as Mosley found out, that’s the risk you take when you hit our streets and sing the praises of Jew-killers.

Yet this case – of course – is not a plea for free speech. It’s a demand that we buy into Hamas’s vile lie about being a ‘liberation and resistance movement’ that just wants to ‘confront the Zionist project’. It’s a call not for liberty but for submission – the submission of the British government, and by extension British citizens, to Hamas’s frothing hatred for the Jewish nation that it perfidiously disguises as a political challenge to Zionism. This case is of a piece with the punishingly illiberal ideology of ‘Islamophobia’, in that it seeks to ringfence Islamist extremism from our moral judgement. In this case, our moral judgement that Hamas is a terrorist group and that its war on Israel is anti-Semitic barbarism.

Here’s the thing, though: it isn’t only Hamas and its weird lawyers who think the t-word should not be applied to this murderous movement. Polite society is packed with people who refuse to call these terrorists terrorists. Remember when the BBC published that smug, pious explanation for why it doesn’t call Hamas ‘terrorists’? It’s because it’s a ‘loaded word’, it said, and it isn’t our job ‘to tell people who to support and who to condemn’. Who do they think they’re kidding? The Brexit-bashing, Trump-hating BBC has suddenly discovered impartiality? It published that piece just four days after Hamas raped and butchered the Jews of southern Israel. Reith spins in his grave.

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Senator Sanders and Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Jayapal, Khanna, and Frost rising to the occasion.

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MAGA "Christians" really just ignore the important parts of their supposed favorite book. Really doubt the guy who said it's "easier for camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God" would be on board with Donald Trump and Elon Musk. (Said guy is, of course, Jesus, NOT a fan of billionaires.) Feel free to save that one for the next time someone in a red hat tells you that you need Jesus!

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Hi, I know I have not the best track record on posting this. but I found this video of book recommendations from Palestinian women. I wanted to share it alongside this campaign, if you are able to donate please do. Please share it and don't let their voices dissapear.

Thanks, I hope you are all well, in peace and that you have and received a lot of love to yourselves.

Hola, sé que no tengo la mejor racha de estar activ@ en publicar, pero encontré este video de recomendaciones de lecturas por mujeres palestinas. Quería compartirlo con esta campaña, si puede donar, por favor haganlo. Por favor compartan y no dejen sus voces desaparecer.

Gracias, espero que se encuentren bien, en paz y que tengan mucho amor hacia ustedes. ❤️

🌍✨ A Voice from Gaza: Fighting for Hope ❤️‍🩹

Hi, my name is Mosab , and I’m from Gaza. Life here has been harder than I could ever imagine, but today I’m sharing my story with hope in my heart, because your kindness has already given us so much strength.

This journey hasn’t been easy. The war has taken 25 family members from us—25 beautiful souls we loved deeply. Their laughter, their presence, their love… all of it is gone, leaving behind memories that are both precious and painful. Every day, I carry the weight of their loss, but I also carry their spirit, which gives me the strength to keep going.

Our Journey So Far

When I first reached out, I couldn’t have imagined we’d make it this far. Your support has been a light in these difficult times, and we are so deeply grateful for every single contribution.

But the road ahead is still challenging. Every day, we’re reminded of how much we’ve lost and how much we still need to rebuild.

Here’s what life in Gaza looks like for my family right now:

🏠 Safety: The uncertainty of tomorrow weighs heavily on us.

😢 Loss: The absence of the 25 family members we’ve lost is a pain we carry every moment.

💔 Dreams on Hold: The future feels so far away when survival takes all our strength.

How You Can Help Us Cross the Finish Line Even the smallest act of kindness can make a difference:

$5 may seem small, but for us, it’s a little relief, a moment of comfort, and a reminder that kindness still exists. ❤️

Can’t donate? Reblog this post to help us reach someone who can. Every share matters more than you know.

✅️ Vetted by @gazavetters ( #309 ) ✅️

Why Your Support Matters Your kindness isn’t just about helping us meet our goal—it’s about reminding us that we’re not alone in this fight. It’s about hope. It’s about survival. And it’s about giving my family a chance to rebuild our lives, even in the face of unimaginable loss.

Thank you for helping us get this far. Your generosity and compassion have already brought us closer to a better tomorrow, and for that, I’m endlessly grateful.

With all my love and gratitude,

Mosab and Family ❤️

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"The air attacks against Yemen's Ansar Allah were the first significant military operation undertaken by Trump during his second term and were thus viewed as a test of both will and military capability. According to data from the US Central Command (CENTCOM) tracked by the Institute for the Study of War, jets flying from the USS Harry S. Truman, joined by the USS Carl Vinson on April 10, are conducting dozens of near-daily airstrikes from the Red Sea.

Despite claims of considerable damage, including the killing of hundreds of Yemeni civilians, which the US claim are Yemeni fighters, the YAF have shown minimal signs of retreat. In response, the YAF continued repeated attacks on Harry S. Truman. Ansar Allah has also launched missiles at Tel Aviv and other regions in occupied Palestine, sounding alarms and creating panic and havoc in recent weeks, especially on Sunday. The YAF announced that its UAV unit downed yet another US MQ-9 drone on Sunday, marking the 19th UAV downed by the YAF in response to the ongoing US aggression against Yemen and its horrific massacres against the Yemeni people and as the US continues its aggression on Yemen in support of 'Israel.' With the estimated unit cost of an MQ-9 drone at around $33 million, the total losses incurred by the US from the downing of these drones in Yemen have now surpassed $600 million.

Last week, Emily Milliken, Associate Director of the Atlantic Council's N7 Initiative, stated that Ansar Allah's 'group resilience, strategic adaptability, and deep-rooted influence within Yemen,' should not be underestimated. Milliken further noted that a purely military approach would not achieve Washington's goals of ending the group's capabilities. The United States has spent over $200 million in precision munitions alone in just three weeks of intensified strikes against alleged Ansar Allah targets in Yemen, with the total cost of the operation expected to surpass $1 billion by next week, The New York Times reported earlier this month. But despite the scale and expense of this offensive, US officials privately acknowledged it has been very limited in deterring Yemeni missile operations or downgrading their capabilities."

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What if Candace-2D takes over the Phineas & Ferb theme song?

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Star Wars: X-Wing (2nd Ed.) - RZ-2 A-Wing Expansion Pack - Tallissan Lintra, RZ-2 A-Wing

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What the media won't show

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ETA more options since the phone line is back down (WOOT):

The digital tip line:

And this:

(From a source I will not link.)