"Zionism is a displacement of a religious faith on to a political entity."
Painting criticism of Israel as antisemitism allows governments and institutions to suppress free speech, including Jewish free speech, in the name of “Jewish safety

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/tzedek-collective-safety-zionist-ideology-offers-lie

"Antony Loewenstein is a leading voice among Australian Jews speaking out against Israel's attacks on Gaza. But some in the Antony Loewenstein is a leading voice among Australian Jews speaking out against Israel's attacks on Gaza. But some in the Jewish community have branded him a traitor

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/compass/series/38/video/RN2311H010S00

ABC Radio Sydney
Antony Loewenstein's perspective on being a Jew and not blindly supporting Israel

www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/sydney-mornings/antony-loewenstein-jewish-zionism-middle-east-israel-palestine/103800146

An extract of a post to the Protecting American Democracy Discussion:
"...Our access to oil was paramount in our policies in the middle east and that always included keeping the USSR out. Our biggest mistake was toppling the government of Iran when they nationalized THEIR oil and kicked the Dutch owned Shell Oil company out and installing our lackey as their leader. It might have been a much more strategic decision to go after Saudi Arabia at that time.
All that said, can we admit that Netanyahu was an unindicted criminal in Israel propped up by extremists who were stealing Palestinian land for personal gain and killing many Palestinians with no accountability?

College students are smart and idealistic (I am sure you were idealistic too a few years ago) and they have not yet been indoctrinated into the current political environment of their respective countries and most do not have personal assets at stake. That will change with time but what will not change will be the opportunity to do the right thing at the right time. All of this disruption, chaos, and death might have been avoided by doing the right thing in the late 40's. Maybe now is the right time to change our middle east policy; not against those of Jewish faith but in favor of people instead of oil!".

A bright young man sums up what is happening in America and why

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSFKuv7PQ/

https://www.tiktok.com/@yourfavoriteguy/video/7345607039613160747?_r=1&_t=8m3FwdVyPlH

Here we go again, another innocent person taken by IDF,
A doctor who refused to leave the dying people in hospital was taken and now Killed.

https://www.tiktok.com/@middleeasteye/video/7364784919903554849?_t=8m3H5f4vfI9&_r=1

Sen. Bernie Sanders: U.S. Must Threaten to Cut Off Funding for Israel | Amanpour and Company
After October 7th, when Hamas murdered 1,200 Israelis, Senator Bernie Sanders spoke out in favor of Israel’s right to defend itself. Now he says Israel is violating international law, arguing that “the United States cannot continue to be complicit in the horror that is taking place now." Senator Sanders joins the program from Capitol Hill to discuss America’s politics at home and abroad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7S3aXA1Rwo

https://twitter.com/amanpour/status/1786085537029243333/mediaViewer

Israel has long been accused of acting with impunity in the Palestinian territory it occupies, relying on support from the United States and the broader West to protect it from repercussions.

Yet a recent flurry of media reports out of Israel indicates that Israeli officials may be worried about the winds changing with the International Criminal Court (ICC) reportedly planning to charge top Israeli military and political figures with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/1/why-would-israel-and-its-allies-fear-the-icc

Bill Store's latest newsletter is titled, "For the US establishment, violence is the answer".
This is a reply to that article from the comments section

https://bracingviews.substack.com/p/for-the-us-establishment-violence/comment/55187777?r=33695f&utm_medium=ios

Go you good young people!
A chain reaction has begun with thousands of students at Oxford University in the UK joining with the US students in support of the suffering and dying Palestinian people in Gaza

StopGenocide #CeaseFire Now!

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/PRKUoBsK8XJzCJ4K/

Israel's justification for its crimes of killing civilians
In the midst of the Israeli aggression against Gaza now - which human rights activists have described as genocide - the Israeli occupation army is trying to justify the killing and wounding of more than 75,000 Palestinians by saying that they were merely collateral damage. The favorite argument of pro-Israel politicians and media professionals to justify the killing of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli army and its missiles is to blame the resistance movement Hamas by claiming that it uses Palestinian women and children as human shields against the Israeli army. This image is also an attempt to shift the responsibility borne by the attacking Israeli army.
The protection of civilians is one of the foundations of international humanitarian law. Even if a party in the war resorts to the use of human shields, the attacking party is still obligated to take all precautions that will reduce the number of civilian casualties. If the attacking military force finds that the harm of the military operation outweighs its benefit, it must stop it because the attack becomes prohibited under International humanitarian law.
In the aggression against Gaza, Israel justified its attack on Al-Shifa Hospital, saying that there was a Hamas leadership headquarters underneath it, and that the movement used civilians there as human shields, but after the Israeli army entered the hospital, it did not find convincing arguments to justify the attack, and it bombed the civilians inside the hospital and killed them.
If we examine the evidence, we find that the only party in the current conflict that used human shields, as testified and documented by humanitarian, international, and human rights organizations, is Israel. Israel used human shields for its army during the second intifada, which broke out in September 2000. Members of the Israeli army would randomly break into homes and force their residents to use them as human shields to achieve their military goals. The Israeli army also used Palestinians as human shields in 2002 by forcing them to enter the homes of persecutors to confirm their presence. Buildings suspected of being booby-trapped, making them a shield between themselves and the angry Palestinian masses to deter bullets or stones in their direction, hiding behind their backs and shooting, imprisoning them in the houses that the army stormed and taking as headquarters to prevent the resistance from attacking, and forcing them to pick up some items from the street suspected of being booby-trapped.
After appeals and reports submitted by 7 human rights organizations; The Israeli Supreme Court banned this policy, and Zahava Gal-On, a deputy from the left-wing Meretz party, commented: “The Supreme Court ruled that an army in a democratic state cannot behave like terrorist gangs.”
The Israeli army protested this ruling due to its desire to continue to make the Palestinians human shields, and resorted to changing the policy and making it voluntary, meaning that the army could ask the population to volunteer to serve its interests.
In all the Israeli army's confrontations against the Palestinians, whether in the West Bank or Gaza, international human rights bodies have recorded many cases in which the occupation soldiers used civilians as human shields.
The International Justice Organization published a lengthy report in which it said, "It did not find a single piece of evidence proving that Hamas used civilians as human shields, despite the accumulated charges levelled by Israel against the movement."
During the current Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip - according to American assessments - half of the munitions and bombs dropped on the Strip are unguided.
According to expert analyzes compiled by journalist Julia Frankel from the Associated Press, the Israeli war is considered one of the most deadly and dangerous wars among contemporary wars.
Frankel cited the conclusions of researchers Cory Shear and Jamon van den Hoek of New York University and the University of Oregon, who are experts in mapping to assess damage during wars.
The researchers found that Israel had destroyed two-thirds of the buildings in the northern Gaza Strip and a quarter of the buildings in the south of Khan Yunis. They expressed their concern about Israel's use of unguided bombs in a narrow, densely populated area, with the certainty that it would kill civilians.
Researcher Nev Gordon comments that Israel, through its constant claim that 20,000 civilians were human shields, turns civilians from protected innocents into indirect participants in the war. He added, "Including an entire people under the name of human shields violates many of the legal limits set to protect civilians, and expands the scope of the violence that Israel uses against the Palestinians."
Human rights experts believe that calling 20,000 civilians “human shields” while continuing to bomb them with bombs not intended to kill them is an example of how Israel uses legal terminology to give an atmosphere of legitimacy to its actions that violate international humanitarian law.
Others give an example of this, saying, “If a terrorist uses civilians as human shields in a building in central Paris or New York, for example, does it make sense to destroy the entire building in the center of the city?”
Source: Al Jazeera

The video reminds me of the protests on the Vietnam war where USA was no stranger to war crimes and the use of chemical warfare with extensive use of napalm.

https://youtu.be/jE13QLZJgNQ?si=kxQTGlJUlMe4BIPk

Gaza protests continue on US university campuses | BBC News| BBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-BQTJbbszA

Protests erupting across college campuses reach boiling point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d3AYAPYc38

Israel-Gaza war continues to fuel protests and division in US, France and UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-BHQrmapgM

Student demonstrations in the United States against Israel
Anger sweeps American students who oppose Israel and the war in Gaza and demand the withdrawal of funds from entities linked to Israel. The student revolution exploded and swept most of the American states. 40 universities in particular, even expanding outside the country. Movements denouncing the Gaza war, and intense anger in the country of “freedom and democracy.”
Universities that witnessed demonstrations:
Arizona State University.
Columbia University.
University of Denver.
Virginia Tech University.
Yale University.
University of Southern California.
Emory University: Faculty gathered on campus to express concerns about violent arrests that occurred on campus, as tenured professors called on the university's president, Gregory Fenves, to step down over the decision to call in state and local police to clear the university of protesters.
Ohio State University: 36 protesters were arrested, after refusing dispersal orders. At the University of Texas at Austin, more than 50 people were arrested.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: More than 75 students gathered, demanding that the university divest from companies that invest in Israel and its military operations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgQbwn0g9dU

From France to Australia, university students are part of pro-Palestine protests as Columbia students continue encampments.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/26/are-us-campus-protests-against-israels-war-on-gaza-going-global

The United States of Israel Exposed:
The war on the Palestinian people of Gaza is paid for, armed by and has the ironclad support of the American Government but it is not in the best interests of its people

StopArmingIsrael #StopGenocide

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6Ozwiuog-B/

Gaza: Hundreds of bodies are recovered from mass graves at two major hospitals

https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q954

Signs of Torture’ – 392 Bodies Found in Mass Graves at Nasser Hospital

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/signs-of-torture-392-bodies-found-in-mass-graves-at-nasser-hospital/
Mass grave found in courtyard of Shifa Hospital

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240416-mass-grave-found-in-courtyard-of-shifa-hospital/

UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally
Rights chief also warns Britain will be ‘judged harshly by history for its failure to help prevent civilian slaughter in Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/24/uk-accused-amnesty-destabilising-human-rights-globally-gaza-israel-russia-ethiopia-sudan-myanmar

The title of this video, "Will Zionism Self-Destruct?" is a bit misleading. Alastair Crooke gives a master class on the power structure of the Middle East. In its decades long remission, Iran has crafted a new strategy to defeat the US/Israel doctrine of air and naval superiority. . This doctrine is being used in a new matrix throughout the Middle East, in Yemen, in Iran, in Jordan and in Palestine to turn the tables on the US and Israel. Warfare, as we know it in the Middle East, will never be the same.

https://www.youtube.com/live/Ks5xtVM0NpY?si=I4dlAoGUeRhcp6vn

This is what happens when Israeli citizens (palestine and Jewish) get treated if they speak out against their government.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe9roKDQ/

Israel has killed record numbers of aid workers, health workers, journalists and civilians in their war on Gaza. All with the IDFs surgical precision

Last footage of aid workers killed by the IDF:

https://www.facebook.com/conechado/videos/3184665184997626/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v