Ukrainian drone strikes have disrupted traffic on the R-280 “Novorossiya” highway, the main land route linking the Rostov region with occupi
Ukraine's drone strikes on the "Novorossiya" (new Russia) highway from Rostov-on-Don to the illegally occupied Crimean Peninsula are encouraging news. Ukraine has hit fuel supplies, forcing the illegal occupation government to ration fuel at 20 liters per day. Some fuel stations in the Crimea have run out entirely.
Many people in the West have either assumed or feared that Ukraine may have to concede land to Russia in return for a peace deal. But they reckon without two important facts: one, that the Russians cannot claim victory in the Donbas unless the Ukrainians surrender unconquered parts, and secondly, the above report shows that Ukraine still has methods of pressuring the occupiers. Make the Russian occupation as costly to maintain as possible. Already, some of the occupation politicians have circled wagons, lying about the scope of the attacks, while a Russian analyst accused Ukraine of 'cynical barbarism', once again proving how Russia falsifies the plain meaning of language and reverses victim and aggressor. As the occupiers complain about logistical problems, one solution remains available: it's time for them to pack up and go home. Nobody in Europe recognises these illegal governments in the Crimea, Zaporizhzhia, or other Ukrainian regions. Hopefully more attacks will continue to cripple Russia's energy supplies.
It's high time that the Russians read the very book their own country produced, Crime and Punishment.
I wanted to verify this story, and I discovered that it has not made headlines on the first page of Google results. I eventually found this post on the Instagram page of the venerable organisation HonestReporting.
Anyone familiar with the state of the Muslim world will not be surprised to see yet another example of anti-Jewish hatred. Blaming the Jews for problems in the Muslim world spreads like the bubonic plague among Muslims and, when joined to Islamic terrorism, becomes the most lethal form of hatred. Few people even dare to address this problem; people are generally afraid of identifying problems within the Muslim world. This may explain the lack of headlines and the lack of condemnation.
michael jackson was and still IS innocent. you don’t provide evidence at all and repeat the same debunked lies that’s been recycled on the media for decades. square one on youtube gives and unbiased opinion. majority of the things you typed in your reblog were from the PROSECUTION, the same prosecution that was literally caught by the jury tampering with evidence because they didn’t have any.
Given that you have not actually disproved any of the evidence against Michael Jackson, and given that you rely upon Jackson fan videos like Square One, which is full of errors, nothing you say can be taken seriously.
The evidence that Michael Jackson sexually abused young boys is overwhelming, and if you had the courage to address specific evidence, I am utterly confident that I would destroy the flimsy and hominems and hagiography that form the basis of your "reasoning".
Having said the above, there are real martyrs: people who died for a noble cause. The seven-decade Arab murder and extortion campaign against Israel does not count as a noble cause.
On This Day — May 17, 1939: Britain Appeased the Arabs & Condemned Europe’s Jews to the Holocaust
As Jews across Europe were being beaten, robbed & deported after Kristallnacht, Britain joined the side of their persecutors by issuing the infamous White Paper of 1939 — one of the most disgraceful acts of appeasement and betrayal in modern history.
First they appeased Hitler at Munich.
Then they appeased the Mufti of Jerusalem and Arab violence.
At the worst possible moment, Britain illegally slammed the last escape door shut on Europe’s Jews. The White Paper drastically restricted Jewish immigration to a trickle and made any further entry subject to Arab consent — which the Arabs had already made clear would be zero. Jewish land purchases were brutally restricted.
This was not policy.
This was betrayal.
Britain had been granted the Mandate for Palestine by the League of Nations via unanimous international treaty specifically to establish a Jewish national home and encourage close Jewish settlement.
The League’s own Mandates Commission reviewed the White Paper and declared it illegal — a clear violation of the Mandate. Britain simply ignored the League and enforced it anyway.
The Jews begged for their lives. Britain gave them a death sentence.
Hundreds of refugee ships were turned away. British forces fired on many. The Struma — carrying 769 Jews, including 70 children — was refused entry and later sunk. One of many such tragedies. Britain’s policy trapped Jews in Europe with nowhere to run as the Holocaust began.
By closing the gates while the Nazis prepared the gas chambers, Britain became complicit in the scale of the systematic, industrialized genocide. At least hundreds of thousands of Jews who could have reached safety in the Land of Israel were instead exterminated.
The British didn’t just fail the Jews.
They actively helped ensure that when the Nazis came for them, there was no place left in the world to which they could escape.
That is why a strong, sovereign Israel is not optional — it is an existential necessity.
Never again will Jews depend on the mercy of empires that appease our enemies and abandon us to slaughter.
Never again will we trust “guarantees” from powers that fold, betray, or look away when it matters most.
A sobering episode of history that deserves wider attention. I am a patriotic Brit that has no problem condemning Britain's shameful appeasement of Arab violence in Mandatory Palestine. If I am not mistaken, Jewish land and house purchases in Mandatory Palestine also faced restrictions around the same time.
Sorry not sorry, but if you actually believe the “Israel trains dogs to rape Palestinians” shit - an absurdity that is not even physically possible so obviously has zero evidence - while also denying and downplaying the extreme sadism of the sexual violence committed by Hamas against Israelis on October 7 despite the incredible amounts of documented and forensic evidence - not only are you fucking stupid but you have lost any right to pretend to care about the weaponisation of rape and sexual abuse.
It should be clear to any fair-minded person that the anti-Israel movement will invent any claim, no matter how hysterical or delusional, in order to smear the Jewish State. This is just a tool of emotional blackmail, as it is impossible to answer accusations that are blatantly insane. Going on the defensive means that you have already lost, because you are giving credibility and validity to something that is neither credible nor valid.
The anti-Israel anthrax helps dehumanise Israelis, so that the Arabs can invent more justifications for terrorist attacks and invasions. After just the latest report documenting the sexual torture inflicted upon Israelis by Hamas and their Arab civilian collaborators, we should not be surprised that the Arabs once again play their deflection, obfuscation, and denial game in the media.
The Jews at the heart of Among Neighbors, from California-based filmmaker Yoav Potash, died six months after the end of Nazi occupation.
A documentary about the murder of five Jews in a Polish town is being threatened with a ban in Poland - not because they were killed in the Holocaust, but because they weren’t.
The Jews at the heart of Among Neighbors, from California-based filmmaker Yoav Potash, died six months after the end of Nazi occupation. They were among a handful of survivors from Gniewoszów, a town where about 1,500 Jews made up half the population before World War II. When they returned home in 1945, they were killed by their Polish neighbors.
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California filmmaker Yoav Potash's documentary 'Among Neighbors' follows the murders of five survivors who returned to their hometown -- and
A documentary about the murder of five Jews in a Polish town is being threatened with a ban in Poland, but not due to the country’s controversial laws about Holocaust remembrance — the victims died six months after the end of the Nazi occupation.
The Jews at the heart of “Among Neighbors,” from California-based filmmaker Yoav Potash, were among a handful of survivors from Gniewoszów, a town where about 1,500 Jews made up half the population before World War II. When they returned home in 1945, they were killed by their Polish neighbors.
Since premiering at the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival in November 2024, “Among Neighbors” has been screened in six countries and qualified for Academy Award consideration. But its release on TVP, the Polish public broadcaster, has prompted uproar from right-wing politicians and a national investigation.
Potash stumbled into making “Among Neighbors” on a 2014 trip to Gniewoszów, where he planned to document a modest rededication ceremony for the Jewish cemetery. As he began talking with the oldest residents, one woman, who has since died, told him that Jews were killed there well after the war.
“That just really struck me as a very different kind of story, because it was not the Germans doing the killing, it was the Poles,” said Potash. “It was not during the war, it was well after, when it should have been a time of peace.”
When “Among Neighbors” appeared on televisions across Poland in November 2025, it was hit with backlash from the office of Polish President Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian who led nationalist efforts to rewrite Poland’s Holocaust history. His Law and Justice party, which governed Poland from 2015 to 2023, promoted historical narratives about Polish victimhood and resistance to the Nazis while delegitimizing research on Polish antisemitism or Poles who killed Jews.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk now leads the Polish government with a centrist coalition, but Nawrocki has been a counterweight to Tusk since he was elected last year.
Six days after “Among Neighbors” aired on TVP, Agnieszka Jędrzak, a minister in Nawrocki’s office, attacked the broadcaster on X. Calling the documentary “historical anti-Polish manipulation,” she said “a television station that has ‘Polish’ in its name should not be broadcasting it.
Jędrzak oversees state awards and Polish diaspora relations. Before joining the president’s office, she spent 15 years working at the Institute of National Remembrance — previously headed by Nawrocki — which gained a reputation for advancing nationalist narratives about the Holocaust. According to Jędrzak’s government profile, she led the IPN as it “responded to defamatory statements which damaged the reputation of Poland and the Polish nation.”
A probe into “Among Neighbors” launched after the Ordo Iuris Institute, a far-right Catholic think tank, filed a complaint with the National Broadcasting Council, comparable to the Federal Communications Commission in the United States.
“The narrative presented in the documentary film ‘Among Neighbors’ clearly undermines values important to Poles, such as historical truth,” the institute said in November. “Above all, the film creates a false image of Poles as a nation co-responsible for the German genocide of Jews during World War II. What is particularly outrageous is the fact that the production was released by Polish Television.”
The National Broadcasting Council responded by opening an investigation into the film.
“Among Neighbors” was made over the course of a decade that largely spanned the Law and Justice regime. In 2018, the country passed a law that outlawed accusing Poland or the Polish people of complicity in Nazi crimes. The infraction has since been downgraded from a crime punishable with prison time to a civil offense, but the law remains in effect.
For Potash, reactions to the film from right-wing nationalist officials were “not surprising at all.”
“They have adopted this mindset where there’s an almost sacred sense that Poles during World War II were either victims or heroes,” he said. “Any story that anyone tells that contradicts that, or that adds that some Poles were perpetrators, is anathema to that.”
TVP has stood by the film and continues to air it. The network has been backed by the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland and the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, whose representatives sent a letter of support to the TVP Program Council’s chair, Barbara Bilińska.
“Among Neighbors” unfolds around a man and a woman who grew up in Gniewoszów. In the last breaths of their lives, they seek to answer questions that have possessed them for 80 years — he as the Jewish child of Holocaust survivors who were killed in their hometown, and she as a Polish eyewitness to the murders.
In a statement, TVP said the reckonings of these two people were neither “anti-Polish” nor “a judgment of the entire Polish nation.”
“We are open to dialogue regarding historical memory and believe that even difficult topics allow society to understand the fuller context of past events,” said TVP. “As a public broadcaster, we have a duty to facilitate such conversation and not shy away from presenting those fragments of history that require reflection and civic courage.”
Beyond Gniewoszów, “Among Neighbors” touches on a wave of murders that struck Jews returning home to cities and towns across Poland after liberation from the Nazis. In the most notorious instance, 42 Jews in the southeastern town of Kielce were killed by a mob of Polish residents, soldiers and police officers in July 1946. The Kielce pogrom convinced many survivors they had no future in Poland, spurring an exodus.
A film dramatizing the Kielce pogrom drew protests from Polish Americans, and the Berlin office of its Jewish producer was destroyed by arson in 1996, the same year the Polish government formally apologized for the pogrom.
Pelagia Radecka, an aging resident who had grown up in Gniewoszów, Poland, became a key figure in Yoav Potash’s documentary ‘Among Neighbors.’ (Courtesy)
“Among Neighbors” confronts the simultaneous intimacy and violence woven through small towns, where Poles lived and worked with Jews, where their children played with Jewish children, and where some Poles also killed their Jewish neighbors. That complex relationship still rests under the surface of skirmishes over Poland’s history.
Konstanty Gebert, a journalist interviewed in the film, compared the relationship between Poland and its Jews to the phenomenon of phantom limbs — the sensation that a body part remains attached after it has been amputated.
“Poland is still suffering from its Jewish phantom pains, and Jews are suffering from their Polish phantom pains,” said Gebert. “Until those two amputated hands can actually shake — and I don’t know how you do that to amputated limbs — but I know that if you don’t, we’ll be still standing there, swallowing painkillers for a pain that cannot be relieved, because the amputated limb is gone and it still hurts.”
It was many years before I learned that even after the atrocities of the Holocaust were discovered, many Jews faced a wave of antisemitism when they returned to their former homelands. I did not know about these post-Holocaust murders in Poland, but I was aware that to this day, a segment of Polish society refuses to accept the enormity of the crime that Polish Nazis and local civilians helped the Nazis perpetrate against the Jews. 3 million of the total 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis were murdered in Poland. The most infamous labour and death camps, Auschwitz and Birkenau, were located in Poland. The truth is so blatant and so horrific that people deny it only to absolve themselves of moral responsibility. That is shameful, and it cannot be accepted.
Anniversary of Auschwitz liberation today. I’ve been there many years ago, as a translator for a Spanish TV crew, filming a documentary about concentration camps. After watching the archival footage from the liberation, we all, men and women, cried uncontrollably. An old man working at the stand selling books about Auschwitz showed us an old yellowish photo from the hanging of Rudolf Hoess, the camp commander, which he witnessed. He said “I was a prisoner here. He’s dead, and I’m alive”. I’ve seen the mountain of clothing, the enormous pile of glasses, the hair described below. Will not forget as long as I live.
“About 7,000 prisoners had been left behind, most of whom were seriously ill due to the effects of their imprisonment. Most of those left behind were middle-aged adults or children younger than 15. Red Army soldiers also found 600 corpses, 370,000 men's suits, 837,000 articles of women's clothing, and seven tonnes (7.7 tons) of human hair.”
Stanisława Leszczyńska was 47 years old, a Catholic midwife from Łódź, Poland, when the Nazis arrested her in 1943.
On April 17, 1943, she arrived at Auschwitz with her daughter Sylwia. She was prisoner number 41335.
Most people sent to Auschwitz were murdered within hours.
But Stanisława had a skill the Nazis needed: she was an experienced midwife.
They assigned her to the maternity ward - a filthy wooden barrack called Block 24, with three-tier wooden bunks where pregnant women - starved, sick, terrified - waited to give birth.
There was no medicine. No clean water. No anesthesia. No surgical instruments. No diapers or blankets for newborns.
Just wooden boards and darkness.
Nazi doctors had specific instructions for babies born in Auschwitz: Kill them immediately. Usually by drowning.
Dr. Mengele ordered her to kill the babies she delivered. She looked him in the eye and refused. But because Stanisława was the only trained midwife, they let her live.
She worked with her bare hands, no gloves, no sterilization. She tore strips from her own clothing to tie umbilical cords.
She delivered babies in the dark, by feel. She delivered babies knowing most would die within hours or days. Guards routinely drowned newborns in buckets, in front of their mothers.
Over two years, she brought 3,000 babies into hell. Most died, but she never lost a mother.
In January 1945, the Soviet Army approached Auschwitz. Stanisława and her daughter, Sylwia, survived.
After the war, Stanisława testified at trials. She never stopped practicing midwifery. She continued helping mothers and babies until retirement.
Stanisława Leszczyńska died on March 11, 1974, at age 78.
This video will leave you speechless. Three Holocaust survivors that saw firsthand the horrors of the Auschwitz labour and death camp spoke on the 80th anniversary of its liberation (last year). What they experienced is beyond all imagination, from the stench of human bodies, to being violently separated from family members, to watching their fellow prisoners die one by one, to watching helplessly as long lines of Jews were unknowingly led to gas chambers. Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on the 27th of January, 1945. As one survivor says, the legacy of this time remains with her constantly and cannot be denied.
The Cenotaph has been draped in flags to mark the upcoming 80th anniversary of VE Day - the 8th of May 1945 marked the end of the war in Europe after years of conflict.
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