More strange and/or foul reactions

[jon-nyc]

Intermittent fasting went from trendy to heroic just like that.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

Intermittent fasting went from trendy to 75% heroic just like that.

FIFY

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

His complaint about the Times doesn’t make any sense. They staged a large operation in Rafah as a diversion for the rescue. Of course it would have been horrible for those civilians involved.

[LuFins Dad]

I don’t think we can refer to these reactions as “Strange” anymore.

Jewish Event at UC Berkeley cancelled because of violent protestors. Even the administration is upset. Attendees had to be evacuated through an underground tunnel.

[89th]

Underground tunnel...

[Copper]

Aboveground tunnel

[George K]

@Copper that should be temporary aboveground tunnel.

[George K]

[Renauda]

Lotta continued to shout while other demonstrators stood in place and held signs such as “Where’s Snyder’s moral outrage over US backed genocide in GAZA?” and “Hitler killed 6 million Jews and Stalin saved 1.6 million Jews.”

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/03/01/communist-group-disrupts-timothy-snyders-lecture-forces-evacuation/

[jon-nyc]

[Renauda]

[LuFins Dad]

She would be wonderful to have a calm rational debate with.

[George K]

I would file charges - that's assault and battery.

ETA: In the twitter feed....

[89th]

Always wondered what happened to Carrot Top

[Mik]

Actually, what happened to Carrot Top is worse. He's quite aged now and still stuck doing the same old schtick, but in a bad wig.

[Aqua Letifer]

@LuFins-Dad said in More strange and/or foul reactions:

She would be wonderful to have a calm rational debate with.

That'd be hilarious, actually.

[taiwan_girl]

https://www.jta.org/2024/03/04/global/vehemently-anti-israel-figure-george-galloway-sworn-into-parliament-as-israel-hamas-war-roils-british-politics

Galloway, representing the far-left Workers Party of Britain after being ejected from the Labour Party two decades ago, was elected with just shy of 40% of the vote. He had based his campaign around appealing to the large Muslim minority in Rochdale.

“This is for Gaza,” he opened his acceptance speech Friday morning, accusing the opposition Labour Party of “enabling, encouraging and covering” Israeli actions in the war in Gaza. The Labour Party had no candidate on the ballot in Rochdale after withdrawing its support for a candidate who had been found to have made antisemitic remarks and entertained conspiracy theories about the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.

Galloway is an ardent anti-Zionist who was expelled from the Labour Party in 2003 for his opposition to the Iraq War and support for deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. He subsequently won elections in east London and Bradford, another town in northern England, by running populist, Middle East-centric campaigns aimed at Muslim voters.

and

Relegated to appearances on Russian and Iranian state broadcasters in recent years,

[taiwan_girl]

Not directly related to the current war, but probably best forum thread to place this

https://www.jta.org/2024/03/11/global/us-religious-freedom-commission-leaves-saudi-arabia-after-rabbi-co-chair-is-told-to-remove-his-kippah

A U.S. government delegation tasked with monitoring religious freedom around the world cut a visit to Saudi Arabia short after Saudi officials demanded that a prominent rabbi on the trip remove his kippah.

Saudi officials told Rabbi Abraham Cooper, co-chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, to remove his kippah while in public, the commission said in a statement on Monday.

Cooper, an Orthodox rabbi and the director of global social action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center advocacy group, “politely” refused the request with the backing of U.S. embassy staff, the statement said.

Saudi officials then escorted the government delegation from the premises of Diriyah, a UNESCO World Heritage site on the outskirts of the Saudi capital, Riyadh. The delegation decided to end its visit to Saudi Arabia prematurely following the incident.

[Renauda]

In 1945, Churchill gave a lunch in Egypt for King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Having been told that there could be no smoking or consumption alcohol in the presence of the king, Churchill informed his majesty that his own religion required “as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinnking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. The King graciously accepted the position.”

https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/15/churchills-way-of-dealing-with-the-saudis/#:~:text=Having been told that there,and in the intervals between