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🩸Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar agreed to allocate 2.35 billion shekels, about $750 million, for global hasbara campaigns under Israel’s 2026 budget. The funding is set to bankroll international media operations, social-media campaigns and outreach to foreign politicians and influencers. The massive allocation signals a major escalation in state-backed propaganda as Israel faces mounting global scrutiny over its mass murder and ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza.
See new posts Conversation The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich agreed with Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on a budget of NIS 2.35 billion (Almost $750 million) for hasbara campaigns, as part of the new 2026 budget. ✍️ @Tobiholc https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-879369
🩸Israeli Finance Min. Bezalel Smotrich & Foreign Min. Gideon Sa’ar agreed to allocate 2.35B shekels, about $750M, for global hasbara campaigns under Israel’s 2026 budget.
The funding is set to bankroll int'l media operations, social-media campaigns & outreach to foreign politicians & influencers...
Utter projection. The country’s dying with him
It sure did.
Check your sources. If you are looking for a think tank that gives symmetrical interlocutor weight to Palestinian, human rights, or postcolonial critiques, BESA is not that.
This is one of the most important essays I’ve read in years.
Reading and writing go hand in hand with logical thinking. Without these we’re left with emotion and charismatic argument - democracy and civilization as we know it is in real trouble. substack.com/@christianca...
When @christiancampbell.bsky.social and I interviewed Caitlin with Nebraskans for Palestine, I asked her if hunger striking is as effective as protest marches. Her answer was fascinating.
And the proof is there, $10k raised to feed Gazans being murdered through forced famine by Israel.
That there are this number of powerful and apparently smart people that didn’t see his mental decline before now boggles the mind.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
If you want to understand the danger of Trump’s intentions with Canada - just look to Putin and Ukraine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/u... Having been on work visas and then a green card holder from 1995-2008 before becoming a citizen, I can confirm that you don’t want to tempt US border officials into messing with you. They have extraordinary powers to make your life difficult. Even as a citizen.
This is really the whole ball game right now, *particularly* among the institutions that make up civil society.
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
If a friend from abroad asked me about traveling to the US right now, I world advise against it. That’s where we are as a society two months in to Trump 2.0.
Everything Trump touches dies.
With the EU saying it won't allow its new rearmament fund to be spent on arms from UK firms unless the UK enters into a security pact with the EU, Britons support signing a defence and security partnership with the EU by 69% to 10% opposed
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
They have so much in common, after all.
The US Director of National Intelligence is retweeting a far-right conspiracy theorist based in Malaysia.
Today in 180AD Commodus succeeded his father, Marcus Aurlieus as Roman Emperor. He would go berserk, naming the city, months & legions after himself.
One contemporary wrote that he turned Rome "from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust".
"The free speech crisis hiding in plain sight isn’t about whether individuals can ever criticize powerful figures — it’s about whether institutions can withstand the pressure to self-censor in the face of legal and political intimidation..."
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Yet another example of how important a name can be in setting character and destiny.
Why is this simulation so dumb? How do we switch to another one?
Trump is asked about $TRUMP, the meme coin that he just launched. It functions as a vehicle for anyone, including foreign governments, to transfer a virtually unlimited amount of money to Trump.
He holds 80% of all coins which are now worth billions.
MORE DETAILS ON THIS HISTORIC GRIFT:
Ukrinform: Former NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg, speaking at the WEF in Davos, emphasised that Ukraine’s best security guarantee is NATO membership under Article 5 of the Washington Treaty. However, if NATO hesitates, Ukraine should be armed "to the teeth" to defend itself and deter russia.
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It’s also a well thought out piece of writing and a perspective worth sharing.
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever."
- Carl Sagan, in Cosmos (1980)
Visualisation of our galactic cluster 💫😲💫✨💫🌌💫
NASA
The most that can be said about the present moment is that there is disagreement within the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party about which faces to eat in what order.
This is an incredible photo op for someone who killed another person. A frame from a Hollywood movie. Looks like the Mayor and NYPD have his back.
How’s their health insurance?
