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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.


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    Israeli soldier leaves Brazil after Justice orders investigation by the Federal Police (Brazilian FBI).

    A 21-year-old Israeli reservist has left Brazil, after the Federal Court ordered an investigation against him for alleged war crimes. The soldier was on vacation in Bahia, but had fought in Gaza. The case led the Israeli authorities to issue a warning to all soldiers that they could be prosecuted abroad for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

    The Israeli Foreign Ministry explained that it had in fact “accompanied” the soldier’s removal from Brazil and had been in contact with him and his family throughout the process. The Palestinian Arab Federation in Brazil explained that soldier Yuval Vagdani “was on tourism in Bahia and his last known location is Morro de São Paulo, in that state.” According to the organization, the soldier is suspected of taking part in the demolition of a residential block in Gaza at the end of 2024, using explosives outside of combat situations. The homes served as shelters for internally displaced Palestinians after the start of the “genocidal” aggression on October 7, 2023.

    Former president Jair Bolsonaro criticized the actions of the Brazilian justice system. He republished a post from another account on X (formerly Twitter) that reads: “In 2019, Israel was one of the only countries to send a team to help with the search in Brumadinho. Today, the Brazilian State is deploying the Federal Police to investigate members of the Israeli Armed Forces on vacation in Brazil.”

    A column published on Sunday in Haaretz, one of Israel’s leading newspapers, says that the case in Brazil has thrown Israel into “panic mode”. “We think Brazil should also investigate the escape route, because it may have been through Paraguay and Argentina, two countries that are once again harbors for war criminals. And we think that Brazil should take into account the list published by the HRF, so that it has the names and identities of these criminals in its archives. When they happen to set foot on Brazilian soil, they should be captured immediately,” said the president of Fepal.

    The federation also considers the Federal Court’s decision to investigate the Israeli soldier to be the right one, but has also suggested that an internal investigation should be carried out to find out if there was any action or omission by Brazilian public agents in the soldier’s departure from the country.

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      The case led the Israeli authorities to issue a warning to all soldiers that they could be prosecuted abroad for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

      People will still claim these are the good guys

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        They’ll just say that Lula da Silva hates Israel (which is true, but he has good reason to hate Israel) and that Brazil is evil or something, because the Brazilian Supreme Court granted Vladimir Putin a Habeas Corpus if he wanted to visit Brazil and meet with Lula da Silva or attend the G20/COP 30 meeting. But the Brazilian justice system really does imprison Israeli war criminals.