More airlines suspend flights for Israel as Houthis inflict misery on Netanyahu
British Airways and Air France have become two more major international airlines to announce their suspension of flights to and from Israel until end of July. This was after the Houthis warned international airlines to adhere to what they said was an airspace ban over Israel. Rifat Jawaid looks at the growing power of the Houthis and how they achieved something against Israel that even Hamas and Hezbollah couldn’t.
Irish rappers “Kneecap” headline London festival following terror charge
Liam O’Hanna, a member of the Belfast-based hip hop group Kneecap, has been formally charged with a terrorism-related offense tied to the alleged public display of support for Hezbollah during a concert in London. But the group remained firm on their stance to support Palestine and the resistance.
Gamification of Warfare
"As a gamer and video game designer, I think videogames may be the biggest islamophobia propaganda since 9/11"
"The only person who opened up my eyes about this was Bad Empanada when he filmed himself playing a game that involved shooting the IDF, and it got taken down and caused controversy, when nobody flinches when it is an Arab being shot in video games. Thank you so much for opening up our eyes even more to this. This is horrific propaganda."
"Jacob Geller's essay into every torture scene in Call of Duty is eye opening as well. In the series, the protagonist of the game often tortures the enemy forces with seemingly no consequences. Heck, they even tend to normalize these atrocities by depicting the torture as something "heroic" or "necessary". Even in the latest Modern Warfare reboot (I forgot which one), there's a scene beloved Capt. Price holding a civilian hostage at gun points (being the wife and the son, which is still a child, of the terrorist he captures). But to this day, the game is still popular, making millions upon millions dollar with each release, and not enraging people in the state enough to change it direction to depict war as it is. It is and always be, the US Army propaganda machine. And with this "normalization" of war atrocities committed by the supposedly "good guys" are a justification to the real US Army (and their allies, especially IDF) to do it in the real warfare."
It's the same on TV of course, especially NCIS is a propaganda tool. But it has been going in that direction since Fox' series '24' with Jack Bauer. Before it was always Russians for bad guys.
