Tracy Campbell

09/11/2025

There is a new Israeli troll/bot tactic afoot. Meme Spamming - the excessive or repetitive posting of memes in comments. Sometimes over 100 at a time. Only AI has capacity for that.

Buried among dozens of 🇵🇸 memes is the most vile extremist antisemitic garbage - undoubtedly put there to enable false-flag complaints. I presume the premise is that it won't be moderated because it is too time consuming to scroll through it all.

Note that following an Australian case some years ago, in theory, it is possible for an individual to be held responsible for allowing hate-speech traffic on their page. However, it is not a well developed area of law. Social media platforms have fought tooth and nail against any legal liability they may have.

Meme Spamming makes it nearly impossible for people to participate in, or follow a conversation on a post. That goes for well-meaning idiots who want to share half a dozen of their best memes on someone else's post. One is enough and it should be relevant to the post. It is a fair bet that your fellow supporters have already seen your memes.

In the case of a real bot attack, it is easier to delete the post - and post again after reporting and blocking the bot entity.

The only response is to report and block.

08/11/2025

"New Zealand Pro-Palestine protesters gathered at West Auckland’s Te Pai Park today, celebrating successes of the BDS movement against apartheid Israel while condemning the failure of the country’s coalition government to impose sanctions against the pariah state.

“They’ve done nothing,” said Neil Scott, secretary of the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA).

He outlined successes of the global BDS Movement and explained now New Zealanders could keep up the pressure on the NZ government and on the Zionist state that had been “systematically” breaching the US-brokered “ceasefire” in Gaza.

The criticisms followed the condemnation of New Zealand’s stance last week by the secretary-general of the global human rights group Amnesty International, Agnès Callamard, who said the government had a “Trumpian accent” and had remained silent on Gaza.

“Internationally, we don’t hear New Zealand. We haven’t heard New Zealand on some of the fundamental challenges that we are confronting, including Israel’s genocide, Palestine or climate,” she said in a RNZ radio interview.

Te Atatu MP Phil Twyford also spoke at the Te Pai Park rally, saying that the government was “going backwards” from the country’s traditional independent foreign policy and that it was “riddled with Zionists”.

After the rally, protesters marched on the local McDonalds franchise. McDonalds Israel is accused of supporting the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) genocidal crimes in Gaza by supplying free meals to the military, prompting a global BDS boycott." - Asia Pacific Report

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07/11/2025

Spoken like a true dictator.

"Following the election of Zohran Mamdani as New York City's mayor, US President Donald Trump issued a stark warning, urging the mayor-elect to adopt a respectful tone towards the White House. Trump emphasized his own pivotal role in approving key city matters, suggesting that a confrontational stance would hinder Mamdani's success. He also criticized the new mayor's victory speech as "very dangerous."" - Yeni Şafak

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07/11/2025

07/11/2025

"In October 2024 a Lebanese writer named Lina Mounzer wrote, “ask any Arab what the most painful realization of the last year has been and it is this: that we have discovered the extent of our dehumanization to such a degree that it’s impossible to function in the world in the same way.”

I’ve thought about that line a lot over the last year.

I thought about it as Israel hammered Lebanon with at least 20 airstrikes during a supposed “ceasefire”.

I thought about it during the Gaza ceasefire negotiations when the western political/media class kept calling the Israelis held by Hamas “hostages” while calling the innocent Palestinians held captive by Israel “prisoners”.

I think about it as the IDF continues to murder Palestinian civilians every day during the Gaza “ceasefire” when they are deemed to be traveling into forbidden areas, because Palestinians are so dehumanized that Israel sees bullets as a perfectly legitimate means of directing civilian foot traffic.

I think about it as these daily ceasefire violations and acts of military slaughter barely make a blip in the western news media, while any time anything happens that makes western Jews feel anxious or upset it dominates headlines for days.

I thought about it while the western political/media class solemnly commemorated the second anniversary of the October 7 attack, even as the daily death toll from the Gaza holocaust ticked along with its victims unnamed and unacknowledged by those same institutions.

I thought about it when all of western politics and media stopped dead in its tracks and stood transfixed for days on the assassination of Charlie Kirk while ignoring the genocide he had spent the last two years of his life actively manufacturing consent for.

Day after day after day we see glaring, inexcusable discrepancies between the amount of attention that is given to the violent death of an Arab and the attention that is given to the violent death of an Israeli, a western Jew, or any westerner.

These last two years have been a time of unprecedented unmasking in all sorts of ways, but I think that’s the one that’s going to stick with me the most. The way western civilization came right out into the cold harsh light to admit, day after day after day, that they don’t truly view Arabs as human beings.

Ours is a profoundly sick society.

One of the main arguments you’ll hear from rightists about why the west needs to support Israel is that Israel is helping to defend the west from the savage Muslim hoards — a sentiment that Israeli pundits and politicians have been all too happy to feed into of late. It’s revealing because it’s just coming right out and saying that slaughtering Muslims is a virtue in and of itself, so anyone who kills Muslims is an ally of the west.

But any time I come across this argument all I can think is, why would anyone want to defend the west if this is what the west has become?

Even if we pretend these delusions that Arabs and Islam pose some kind of threat to western civilization are valid, why would it even matter? This civilization does not deserve to be saved. Not if we’re going to be living like this.

If we’ve become so detached from our own humanity that we can’t even see innocent children as fully human just because they live somewhere else and have a different religion, then we are the monsters. We are the villains. We are everything the craziest Zionist pretends the Arabs are.

These last two years have shown us that western civilization doesn’t need protection, it needs redemption. It needs to save its soul." - Caitlin Johnstone

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07/11/2025

Whataboutism is a d***y Israeli propaganda tactic. What about this? What about that? What about our poor? What about Sudan?

It is a stupid nihilistic argument. If you followed it to its logical conclusion - you would care about nothing.

The sort of people who care about the genocide in Gaza, to which NZ contributes diplomatic cover and military support - are the same people who work in other social justice causes. They are exceptionally aware, empathic people, and they can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Palestine's flag has come to represent a world of injustice. Next time you see a Palestinian flag - those are Sudan's colours too.

07/11/2025

Israel is set to introduce the death penalty - for Palestinians only. It would not apply to an Israeli who killed a Palestinian. The race-based death penalty Bill is a world first.

"Such a law would be an indelible moral stain and it would further tarnish Israel's image abroad. A death penalty on the basis of race would be justified grounds for claiming that Israel has racially selective legislation. Moreover, the bill is also meant to make it easier to impose the death penalty in the West Bank and to make it mandatory there as well, with no possibility of leniency. That would violate international law regarding [illegally] occupied territory." - Excerpt from Haaretz הארץ editorial

The Knesset National Security Committee advanced the bill Monday 3 November. The Bill's first reading is expected this week. Netanyahu’s support for the Bill helps neutralize opposition in the Knesset, and gives Security Minister Ben Gvir’s flagship Bill realistic momentum. Note that Israel holds over 10,000 Palestinians under military law.

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07/11/2025

Turkiye's Anadolu Agency reports that Israeli ministers are upset about the NY mayoral result. Doesn't that make your heart bleed. 😁

"Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called Mamdani’s election as New York mayor “antisemitism’s triumph over common sense,” labeling the newly elected mayor “a Hamas supporter, a hater of Israel and an avowed anti-semite"

Even on implausibly conservative estimates, Israel has killed close to 69,000 people, mostly women and children, and injured over 170,000 others during its genocide in Gaza.

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Image from social media.

07/11/2025

Aston Villa won 2-0 against Maccabi Tel Aviv. And that's all she wrote.

07/11/2025

"This photo should be placed in every history book, as it PERFECTLY encapsulates who Trump is. This happened earlier today. A guy collapsed down on the floor right next to him at an Oval office event... the guy could be dying... and Trump barely moves a muscle, doesn’t give a damn, does NOTHING to help, and looks super annoyed that his photo op this afternoon has been interrupted. Donald Trump in a nutshell, ladies and gentlemen." - Occupy Democrats

07/11/2025

"The Israeli forces killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy during a military incursion in the town of Al-Yamun, west of Jenin, in the [illegally] occupied West Bank, early on Thursday, according to the WAFA News Agency

The Palestinian health ministry said it was informed by the General Authority for Civil Affairs that Murad Fawzi Abu Saifin, 15, was shot and killed by Israeli troops, who also seized his body.

Local sources told WAFA that Israeli forces stormed the town overnight and shot dead Abu Saifin in the street, hitting him with four bullets. Israeli forces reportedly prevented ambulance crews from reaching him, and he was left to bleed to death, after which his body was taken away.

Israeli forces also deployed snipers on rooftops and raided several streets in the town, WAFA reported.

Abu Saifin’s killing brings the number of Palestinians killed in Jenin to 56 since Israel launched its assault on the city and its refugee camp on January 21, with more than 200 wounded, according to WAFA." - TRT World

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07/11/2025

Medea Benjamin speaking for CODEPINK: Women For Peace.