Trump administration ‘weaponizing Christianity’ as Israel acts with impunity – activist

 

The US president’s rhetoric is unbecoming of a world leader while the West continues to turn a blind eye to Israeli crimes in Gaza and beyond, Tadhg Hickey has said

The administration of US President Donald Trump is “weaponizing Christianity” to justify its actions in the Middle East, while Israel continues to act with impunity as much of the West turns a blind eye, Irish activist and satirist Tadhg Hickey has said.

Appearing on RT’s East Meets West show, hosted by Tara Reade and Olga Bataman, Hickey described it as ironic that Trump and other officials in his administration have invoked biblical messaging in their public statements on the war against Iran, when in reality their actions are “going further and further away from what Christ’s teachings were.”

“It’s a weaponizing of Christianity that I find really appalling. It’s really vulgar this idea that Jesus is this kind of agent of war for these people, and there’s nothing Christian about their values or their behavior,” Hickey said.

He described Israel as acting with total impunity in Gaza and elsewhere, and attempting to “get away with as much as they can” while Trump is in the White House, safe in the knowledge that they will face no resistance from Washington or the broader West.

Hickey also described “Christian Zionism” in the US as “the most voracious aspect” supporting Israel’s actions, while the Jewish state has been adept at creating a “Trump 2.0 monster” and ensuring complicity from Washington.

Hickey also discussed his experience of being detained in Israel after attempting to deliver aid to Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla in 2025.

“We were abducted in international waters, brought to a terrorist prison… put into prisoner garb, denied medical attention, no access to lawyers, no yard time. There was a 75-year-old Irish guy, he was denied access to his insulin… it was a miracle he survived. I don’t think they actually would have tried to kill one of us, but if one of us had died in one their cells, that would have been a big bonus [for them], because it would have been a deterrent for people going again,” the activist said.  (more...)

Trump administration ‘weaponizing Christianity’ as Israel acts with impunity – activist

Netanyahu’s Terror Attack on Lebanon Destroys Trump’s Ceasefire. Tucker Reacts.

 

Netanyahu launches terror attack on Beirut, destroying Trump’s ceasefire. We need to detach from Israel immediately.

Alastair Crooke is the Director of Conflicts Forum, a small geopolitical and geofinancial consultancy. He is a former senior British MI6 officer and previously served as an advisor on Middle East issues to Javier Solana, the European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief.

Over a nine-year period, Crooke helped initiate a number of ceasefires in the Occupied Territories on behalf of the European Union, working between Hamas, Hezbollah, and Israel. He has more than thirty-five years of experience engaging with Islamist political movements.

Crooke is also an author and a regular media commentator on political and geofinancial issues. You can find more of his work at: https://conflictsforum.substack.com

When the Zionist Army’s Chief Was Under Handala’s Watch! General Herzi Halevi Hacked

 

For years, Handala has silently and invisibly been right inside the system of General Herzi Halevi, the former Chief of Staff of the Zionist Army, a place no one ever imagined possible.

During all this time, more than 19,000 confidential images and videos from the most secret meetings of the Zionist military’s Chief of Staff have been extracted and archived—material your top generals never dreamed would see the light of day.

An army that now nervously pixelates every public image never realized that its own Chief of Staff’s files and photos have been fully accessible and uncensored to Handala, every moment, for years.

Every face, every commander, every criminal pilot, clear and unblurred, are in our hands, and will be revealed one by one when the time is right.

All your top-secret facilities, crisis rooms, maps, and even the tiniest details of your command centers have long been like an open book to us.

Even now, Handala has access to all your senior commanders. Every moment, every decision, every conversation is being watched, only the time to expose them has not yet arrived.

And for the sake of irony: as one of our videos shows, this very so-called “general” was once caught hiding under a table, trying to scare his wife—and failed even at that!

Are these the same criminal commanders who think they can intimidate the lion cubs of Haidar al-Karrar or the warriors of Hezbollah?

What a delusion!

Remember:

We are the shadow in the heart of your command;

And everything you have will one day be exposed for all the world to see.  (more...)

When the Zionist Army’s Chief Was Under Handala’s Watch! General Herzi Halevi Hacked

The Voice of Hind Rajab: The Film They Don’t Want You to See

 

“The Voice of Hind Rajab,” like all great pieces of art, takes a straightforward story — the battle to save the life of a 6-year-old girl, Hind Rajab, trapped in a car in Gaza surrounded by murdered family members — and elevates it to an archetype. This story is as old as time. It lies at the heart of all religious and moral literature. It pits the cruelty and heartlessness of power against the empathy and compassion of the powerless. It asks us what kind of a life we want to live. Is it a life defined by hubris, domination and violence? Or is it a life defined by compassion, justice and self-sacrifice? These are moral, not political questions.

To nurture, preserve and protect the lives of those demonized in war is to be branded a traitor — a subversive, the enemy. It is to risk death. War, and especially genocide, is the quintessential expression of what Sigmund Freud called Thanatos, the death instinct that drives humans towards the destructions of others and themselves. Those who fight for Eros, for life, are eliminated. This schism is at the core of the film. It is the struggle between good and evil, light and dark. And, as so often happens in war, Thanatos prevails. This almost certain defeat gives unquestioned nobility to those who defy the forces of death.

Israel and its supporters do not want the outside world to see the bureaucratic machinery that perpetuates its mass slaughter, but I suspect, even more, it does not want the world to see the humanity of the Palestinians who resist.

It was hard to find a screening. I traveled for over an hour to see it at the Film Forum in New York City, which had just one showing at 4:45 in the afternoon. I understood why. Despite critical acclaim, an Oscar-nominated director and industry heavyweights like Brad Pitt and Joaquin Phoenix behind it, the film — directed by Tunisian filmmaker, Kaouther Ben Hania — faced major difficulties in getting an American distributor — reportedly out of “fear” and disagreement “with the film’s politics,” according to a report by Deadline.

It is not only devastating, not only a cinematic masterpiece, but it rips back all the layers of rhetoric and propaganda to expose the fundamental struggle between the Israeli occupier and the occupied. The struggle is, yes, a conflict about the theft of Palestinian land. It is, as well, a conflict about a violent and lethal occupation, one that has become full-blown genocide in Gaza. But it is also the ancient struggle between the forces of life and death.  (more...)

The Voice of Hind Rajab: The Film They Don’t Want You to See

54% Of Canadians Agree With Banning IDF Service: Poll

 

As of March 2025, more than 1,500 Canadian citizens were serving in the IDF

A new Pollara survey commissioned by The Maple found that 54 per cent of Canadians agree with making it illegal for Canadian citizens to serve in Israel’s military.

This group is composed of those who “strongly” (33 per cent) and “somewhat” (22 per cent) agree.

In comparison, 27 per cent said they disagree with making it illegal (11 per cent “strongly”), while 19 per cent said they “didn’t know.”

As such, Canadians are twice as likely to agree with making Israeli military service illegal than they are to disagree, and three times as likely to feel “strongly” about the former than the latter. Moreover, 67 per cent of Canadians with an opinion on the statement agree with it.

Pollara surveyed 1,546 randomly selected Canadian adults from March 27 to 30. The responses were largely consistent across demographic cohorts, including age, gender, income and education level.

It’s currently legal for Canadians to join the Israeli military, as the Foreign Enlistment Act only prohibits citizens from fighting for non-state forces, designated terrorist organizations and militaries of states at war with an ally.

The poll found that 47 per cent of Canadians said they agree with making it illegal for citizens to fight for the military of any foreign government. In comparison, 30 per cent said they disagree.

As such, Canadians expressed greater agreement with making participation in the Israeli military in specific illegal than in the militaries of foreign governments generally.  (more...)

54% Of Canadians Agree With Banning IDF Service: Poll

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55% Of Canadians Think Serving In U.S. Military Should Be Illegal

Shaky ceasefire unlikely to stop cyberattacks from Iran-linked hackers for long

 

Hackers backing Tehran say an uncertain ceasefire between Iran and the United States and Israel won't end their retaliatory cyberattacks, a warning that American cybersecurity experts say potential targets in the U.S. and Israel should take seriously.

One leading hacking group known as Handala said after the ceasefire announcement that it was temporarily postponing attacks on the U.S. but would continue to target Israel. It vowed to revive its efforts against America when the time was right — demonstrating again how digital warfare has become ingrained in military conflict. Already, the two-week ceasefire appears at risk of fraying over significant disagreements between the parties, which each are claiming victory in the war.

A pro-Palestinian, pro-Iranian network that operates independently of Tehran, Handala has claimed credit for disrupting the operations of the U.S. medical manufacturer Stryker and hacking into FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email account, among other cyberattacks. The group is just one of several proxy hacking networks allied with Iran.

"We did not begin this war, but we will be the ones to finish it,” Handala wrote on its X account. “And let it be clear: The cyber war did not begin with the military conflict, and it will not end with any military ceasefire.”

U.S. authorities warned on Tuesday that hackers supporting Iran had burrowed into internet-connected computers used to automate and control technology in a variety of important industrial sectors. The computers, known as programmable logic controllers, are used in ports, power plants and water plants — key targets for foreign hackers looking to disrupt everyday life in the U.S.  (more...)

Shaky ceasefire unlikely to stop cyberattacks from Iran-linked hackers for long

The Hidden Racial Messaging In William Branham’s Sermons

 

John and Charles examine how William Branham’s sermons linked civil rights unrest, communism, and apocalyptic fear, and how that messaging may have shaped the worldview of people who sat under it. They trace the overlap between Branham’s rhetoric, racialized panic, and the larger ideological environment that influenced followers in the healing revival world.

The discussion also explores how fear-based preaching affected families, how coded language worked inside the movement, and why some listeners accepted extreme claims while others were disturbed by them. Along the way, John and Charles connect Branham’s warnings to Jim Jones, segregation-era propaganda, and the long-term process of deprogramming after religious indoctrination.

• Jim Jones And The Apocalyptic Race War Theme
• Family Memory And The Shock Of The Sermons
• Civil Rights, The Klan, And Fear Propaganda
• Deprogramming Indoctrination About Communism