Laura Bowley 🇨🇦 🇮🇱

Jordan comes from the Hebrew word Yarden (to flow down/to descend) because the river drops from the Mount Hermon to the Dead Sea. In Arabic, Jordan means…nothing, because it’s a Hebrew word. Jordan and Israel were colonized by Britain who named the entire land “British Mandate of Palestine”. Palestine in Arabic means…nothing, it’s not an Arabic word, which explains why Arabs can’t pronounce it. That’s why they say “Falastine”. The majority of people who live in Jordan are today’s Palestinians. The country, however, is ruled by Saudis (the Hashemites). Before Israel was re established, the area known as Israel and the area known as Jordan was all called The British Mandate of Palestine. That means, if YOU believe Israel is Palestine, then Jordan IS Palestine!!! And if Jordan is Palestine, you have a Free Palestine and it’s 400% bigger than Israel! Moving forward, we are declaring Jordan, Palestine. You’re welcome! (The map below shows how big the British Mandate of Palestine was).

Working on a radical paper/idea with innovation guru Jeff DeGraff and Simmons president Lynn Wooten. The concept is called “Federations of Meaning: Organizing Without Organizations” The idea is that as AI++ destroys conventional organizing, like-minded people need to find one another gather together to birth ideas and bring them to fruition.

🔥 holy shit

CBC deliberately inverted the story They opened with: “Israel has closed off the West Bank after Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians near Hebron.” The actual sequence—that two armed men from Hebron drove up, got out of the car, and opened fire on the checkpoint, triggering a 20-minute gun battle in which the attackers were killed—was buried nearly two and a half minutes in. Only then did viewers learn about the large quantity of weapons and ammunition, Israeli officials saying the pair were planning a major attack on civilians, and Hamas praising the “high-impact operation” while calling for more violence. BBC, CNN, The Washington Post, and The Times of Israel all led with the attack itself. CBC chose not to. This is not neutral sequencing. Leading with the Israeli response while delaying the fact that the dead men initiated a terrorist attack is a classic framing choice that makes the aggressors look like victims—days before Israel’s election @brodiefenlon

Why are the New York Times, CNN, and BBC working overtime to make sure not a single Palestinian flag makes it into their photo coverage of the French protests?

The Roadster could genuinely be a lifesaver in situations like these.