Tommy Orbell

@TommyOrbell
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Marxist and socialist; interested in philosophy, history, sociology, physics, and mathematics.
politicsSocialist, Marxist
Change the Prime Minister

Israel’s war on Gaza isn’t over—but right now, it’s turning its sights on the West Bank, where over 40,000 Palestinians have already been forced from their homes. Ethnic cleansing doesn’t pause—it expands.

Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

Shocking revelations about Sarah Wilkinson's arrest and bail conditions https://substack.com/home/post/p-148409103?source=queue
#UKPolice #UKPolicing #Police #Palestine #FreePalestine
Shocking revelations about Sarah Wilkinson's arrest and bail conditions

Has authoritarianism arrived in the UK?

Council Estate Media
Not content with the #GazaGenocide, the racist Israeli state is spreading its terrorist operations into the West Bank. It clearly wants the ethnic cleansing of both Gaza & the West Bank.
#FreePalestine
Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Protests in Tel Aviv after captive deaths

In possibly the biggest anti-war demonstration yet, Israelis demand Hamas deal after six abductees found dead in Gaza.

Al Jazeera

The IHRA definition of anti-Semitism is at the heart of the Israel anti-Semitism smear campaign, It is important to trace the definition back to its origins in Tel Aviv in 2004.

The Palestinians BDS campaign is an existential threat to Israel. Israel chose to fight BDS with a smear campaign.

The smear campaign is 20 years old.
#IsraeliSmear
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-lobby-uses-discredited-anti-semitism-definition-muzzle-debate/11716

Israel lobby uses discredited anti-Semitism definition to muzzle debate

Despite having no official status, the EU's "working definition" on anti-Semitism is being used by the Israel lobby on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Electronic Intifada
Gilad Erdan was running the Ministry of Strategic Affair when Jeremy Corbyn was leader of the Labour Party. The MSA ran the successful anti-Semitism smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn.
#MinistryOfSmears #IsraeliSmear #ItWasAScam
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200815-from-fighting-bds-to-fighting-delegitimisation-israels-ministry-of-strategic-affairs-code-for-battling-accountability/
From fighting BDS to fighting delegitimisation: Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs code for battling accountability

The Israeli Ministry for Strategic Affairs is shifting its focus from fighting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), to fighting deligitimisation. It was initially established in 2006 for Avigdor...

Middle East Monitor
The centrepiece of the Israeli anti-Semitism smear campaign is the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. It was written in 2004 in Tel Aviv by Andrew Baker, Ken Stern, Dina Porat, Michael Whine and others who lobby for Israel. Its purpose is to smear critics of Israel as anti-Semitic.
#IsraeliSmear

PROPAGANDA

Thinking, Fast and Slow argues we all have 2 ways of thinking:

1. fast, intuitive, emotional
2. slow, deliberative, logical

Propaganda is primevally emotional. It manufactures a mood. It creates an emotional landscape.

Propaganda replaces logic with fallacy. Fallacies look and sound like logic. People think a logical argument has been presented but this is an illusion, it is just a fallacy.

The US is finally giving up on the Gaza Pier. It cost us over $200M and only operated for a total of sixteen days.

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-pier-humanitarian-aid-f3e21c072630c0d9cb9498d3a0e27a55

#GazaPier #PortGenocide #Biden #FreePalestine

U.S. to remove Gaza aid pier, may not put it back

U.S. officials say the pier built by the U.S. military to bring aid to Gaza is being removed due to weather to protect it, and the U.S. is considering not re-installing it unless aid begins flowing out into the population again. While the military has helped deliver desperately needed food through the pier, the vast majority of it is still sitting in the adjacent storage yard because of the difficulty that agencies have had moving it to areas in Gaza where it is most needed, and that storage area is almost full. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military movements.

AP News