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Amajor Tehran theater production has dropped a prominent actor after his support for Palestine triggered fierce backlash, exposing a rare reversal where a stance strongly backed by the Islamic Republic appears to have become a liability with the public. Navid Mohammadzadeh, one of Iran’s most prominent film and theater actors, was removed Monday from the cast of the theater-orchestral production “Arash,” according to a statement from the production team. The producers cited “multiple controversies,” unspecified personal problems and, unusually, “the lack of audience interest in him” as reasons for the decision, saying a replacement would be announced soon. The wording...

SNIPPET Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation and internationally recognized expert on famine, has remained largely silent as his repeated declarations of mass hunger and death in Gaza have failed to materialize and have been undermined by newly released UNICEF data. In 2024, de Waal became one of the most prominent voices warning that Gaza was heading toward an unprecedented mass-starvation catastrophe. Yet the catastrophic mortality scenario suggested by these warnings did not materialize on the scale implied. In a series of interviews, de Waal asserted that approximately 10,000 people per day would die in Gaza...

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz on Wednesday accused the international community of promoting a “blood libel” against Israel over claims of famine in Gaza. Waltz cited a report in Free Press about a July 2026 survey that found acute child malnutrition, or wasting, at 0.5%, and said there was no widespread acute malnutrition at the population level. “Recent data debunks that false narrative,” Waltz said. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, the U.N.-backed body that assesses famine risk, subsequently said famine conditions had been offset while severe food insecurity persisted. The newer findings do not by themselves...

https://thatpointtoo.blogspot.com/2026/08/only-long-hours-after-being-called-out.html Only Long Hours After Being Called Out by GOP's Rogers: Abulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Finally Distances Himself From Infamous Islamic hater Hasan Piker.A Long-Overdue DisavowalIt is telling that only after Mike Rogers publicly called him out did Abdul El-Sayed finally feel compelled to issue a statement distancing his campaign from Hasan Piker.For the record: Abdul El-Sayed released his statement distancing himself from Hasan Piker about 8 to 12 hours after Mike Rogers called him out (Google AI estimate).For months, Piker, the Turkish immigrant notorious "Americans deserved 911" guy (cofounder with his uncle Cenk Uygur: TYT), has been a prominent supporter...

When a local pastor condemned officials for naming a busy intersection after Hezbollah-supporter Osama Siblani in September 2025, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud (above in 2024) called the pastor “an Islamophobe,” declaring: “I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city because you are not somebody who believes in coexistence.” When a local pastor condemned officials for naming a busy intersection after Hezbollah-supporter Osama Siblani in September 2025, Dearborn Mayor...

The Early Genocide Propaganda Accusation: Gaza, November 2023, and the Construction of a Twisted Narrative Only weeks after Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, false accusations of so called "genocide" was already pushed by Arab anti-Israel groups. The speed with which the term entered public discourse is significant. By November 7, only one month after the Hamas massacre and the beginning of Israel's military campaign, three Palestinian so-called "human-rights" organizations—Al Mezan, Al-Haq, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)—were already describing the situation as an imminent genocide. Their joint statement called for an immediate end to what they...

Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism, said: “Calling Israel’s defensive war against Hamas a ‘genocide’ is not activism; it is a modern blood libel dressed up in academic language.” By Marhilda Heller. August 13, 2026. An alliance of 55 organizations has this week launched Gaza GenoLIE, an educational initiative about the “generated and orchestrated genocide lie promoted by anti-Zionists and antisemitic networks in the US, Europe and around the world.” It further says that the “Gaza Genocide” is one of the biggest lies of the 21st century. The website includes eight pieces of what it describes as “the Gaza GenoLIE...