The Jerusalem Post has just given Britain’s most notorious far-right grifter a platform, adding to the one already gifted to him by Elon Musk. In an interview published on Thursday, Tommy Robinson — convicted fraudster, prominent racist, virulent Islamophobe, pro-Putin demagogue — is posing again as Israel’s champion. It’s a typically grotesque spectacle: a white-supremacist conman who has spent years vilifying Muslims as a “civilisational threat” using Israel’s ongoing genocide as a backdrop to depict himself and Israel as the real victims.

While Israel rains bombs and tank shells on Gaza in preparation for yet another round of ethnic cleansing, the Trump administration is busy presenting itself as a peace-broker. Outside the far-right, the UN and most of the world now openly acknowledges that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Yet no power with the military capability to make Israel stand down — least of all those claiming to support Palestinian freedom — is moving to stop it. Instead, Washington is doubling down on protecting Israel and ensuring what it calls “stability” on its terms.

Israel today launched airstrikes in Qatar, with Israeli military officials bragging about their attempted assassination of Hamas leadership officials, who were in Doha to discuss a US-drafted ceasefire proposal for Gaza. According to reports, Washington was notified in advance of the Israeli attack and gave its approval.

A senior Russian delegation landed in Damascus today to discuss “strategic files” with Syria’s new authorities — the same Syrians Moscow was bombing and denouncing as “terrorists” less than a year ago.

Israel today issued fresh ‘evacuation orders’ for the residents of what remains of Gaza City, nearly two years into its relentless bombardment of the strip. Planes have dropped leaflets telling residents to 'evacuate' immediately, disregarding the fact that years of Israeli bombardment have left the people with nowhere to 'evacuate' to.

Elon Musk keeps saying the quiet part out loud. On his platform X today, the world’s richest man declared: “If AfD doesn’t win, Germany is kaput.” Reposting another far-right account celebrating the German far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party’s rise in the polls, Musk, who's previously appeared via satellite at AfD conferences to lavish praise on the party, doubled down on his own earlier line: “Only AfD can save Germany.”

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. In the same breath, he endorsed Trump’s plan to transform the depopulated ruins of southern Gaza — where over 57,000 Palestinians have been documented killed by Israel to date — into a luxury resort. This grotesque flourish topped a day of backroom deals in Washington, where Trump pushed a ceasefire not as a path to peace, but as leverage for a normalization agreement with Syria.

Against all odds — and in the face of overwhelming military force, foreign occupation, and relentless international slander — Syrians overthrew one of the most brutal and entrenched dictatorships of our time. After more than a decade of revolution, they brought down the Assad regime, a hereditary dictatorship that had ruled by massacre, torture, and fear since the 1970s.

In a heartwarming show of international solidarity — or perhaps nuclear trolling — Russia today announced its willingness to give sanctuary to Iran’s enriched uranium. Not Iranian people, of course. Just the radioactive stuff. Human beings from the Middle East, other than current and deposed tyrants and their families, remain notably less welcome in Moscow than uranium hexafluoride.

Israel’s latest military strike on Iran, dubbed 'Operation Rising Lion', was more than a show of force—it was a political signal. While missiles targeted IRGC infrastructure and killed its head, the operation’s name also raised immediate questions: was this a nod to Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last Shah, who uses the lion as his personal symbol and brand?