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Jan Betlach claimed that the official list of the dead from Gaza also included Palestinian assailants killed during the attack on October 7, although he stated that they died in Israel. He noted that 364 attackers were identified by name, and 80% of them appeared on the list. Betlach further wrote that of the 91 identified bodies that Israel returned to Gaza after the ceasefire, most belonged to assailants killed in Israel on October 7. According to him, about a third of them were already on the list before the bodies were returned. He also claimed that in Gaza, it was enough to report a presumed death without providing the body or its location. The website Genocide in Gaza (Gigaza) documented at least 68 of these men according to Betlach, stating that they died in airstrikes in Gaza. Betlach argued that Israel had possession of their bodies and that, according to the website’s own data, most died on October 7, when there were no Israeli soldiers in Gaza. He added that Gigaza listed airstrikes as the cause of death for 94% of approximately 50,000 documented fatalities, and therefore questioned the reliability of its data. #Gaza #Izrael #konflikt (translated)

Defense companies are expanding and attracting the attention of students at TU Delft by heavily investing in recruitment activities, including paying 1,000 euros for lectures, as they seek specialized technicians amidst a thriving defense industry. #Defensiebedrijven #TUdelft #Technologie (translated)

Professor Michele Geraci, former Undersecretary of State, described the statements made by former Prime Minister Gentiloni as disturbing, arguing that they seemed to confirm conspiracy theories about the European Union. According to Geraci, these theories depict the EU as a non-democratic institution, where a country could not oppose the Commission's policies even through voting procedures and would risk, like Orbán, losing elections due to the Union's intervention rather than the will of the voters. Geraci asked readers what they thought about it. #UnioneEuropea #politica #teoriecomplottiste (translated)

BICCY.IT had mocked Muti's "style lesson," claiming it consisted of remaining silent. It added that if Barbara had reacted the same way a year earlier, she would have been severely criticized. The post referred to Dancing with the Stars. #Ballandoconlestelle #Ballandoconlestelle #stile #opinioni (translated)

Martina Fraňková wrote that Grolich was handing out flyers in Průhonice to support his election, and she used a derogatory term against him. Ironically, she added that he would also need a map of the Czech Republic for the globe, because according to her, he believed that Průhonice was in Vyškov. #Průhonice #politika #volby (translated)

Julien De Wit wrote that a colleague had posted his testimony on LinkedIn and that he found it worth sharing. The self-employed individual mentioned that he had received chemotherapy with Taxotere and Cyclophosphamide three years earlier, followed by radiotherapy. A month after his last radiation treatment, he had returned to work, although his supervising doctor thought it was too soon according to him. He had quickly reduced his replacement income of about 40 euros per day. The colleague wrote that he worked as a self-employed individual without staff through a company and had no fixed salary, paid sick leave, or vacation pay. If he was sick or took a holiday, he earned nothing. With a full schedule ahead, he was afraid of getting sick this month, he wrote. He opposed what he considered to be negative perceptions of self-employed individuals with a management company and called for respect for the risks they themselves bore. https://t.co/JNrZ60Kq3n #zelfstandigen #ondernemen #respect (translated)

Leonardo Panetta wrote that, while the protesting students received widespread attention, Louise Montangon represented a voice outside the choir. He described her as an activist of the Rassemblement National and a philosophy student at the University of Bordeaux who was not on strike. According to Panetta, Montangon said she had to attend classes remotely because, given her political stance, she found it almost impossible to go to the faculty; she also claimed that students, professors, and administrative staff were all left-wing. #Manifestazione #Politica #Università (translated)

Marcel Crok suspected that Tijs was referring to him with the term 'climate deniers' because he claimed to be about the only dissenting voice during an external expert day in March 2025. He called the term derogatory and pointed out that CDA leader Henri Bontenbal had also used it regularly, according to him. Crok invited Tijs to a lecture by Clintel given by Roger Pielke Jr. the following Sunday in Driebergen. He referred to an article by Pielke about a campaign against climate scientists with dissenting views. According to Crok, Australian activists, including a cartoonist, with the support of influential American climate scientists, created blacklists. Among those listed were Pielke, his father, and Judith Curry, according to him. Crok wrote that their academic careers were thereby hindered and called the issue concerning for Members of Parliament. Regarding his own participation in the Citizen's Assembly, Crok stated that the selection of citizens went well and that his discussions with KNMI director Maarten van Aalst were respectful. However, in hindsight, he claimed that the organization published an incorrect fact-check. He said he should have filed a forty-page complaint before he received any response. Crok argued that the debate about climate, just like the debate about corona which Tijs had previously struggled with as a journalist, was, in his view, being stifled. He spoke of a suffocating atmosphere in the academic world and wrote that no journalist had signed up to attend Pielke's lecture. #klimaat #wetenschap #discussie (translated)

Jan Betlach recommended a video from the account MorEdge_Insight, which he believed explained why the accusation that Israel was founded on "stolen land" was incorrect. He claimed that this criticism more accurately pertained to Jordan. Betlach stated that after World War I, Britain received the mandate territory of Palestine, where a Jewish national homeland was supposed to be established while protecting the rights of other inhabitants. In 1922, according to him, Britain separated about 77 percent of the territory, closed it to the Jews, and handed it over to Abdullah, the prince of Hejaz, which is today part of Saudi Arabia. He claimed that Abdullah had no relation to Transjordan and that his appointment to the throne was imposed by the British after France expelled his brother Faisal from Damascus; the League of Nations merely approved this formally, according to him. He described Jordan as a state created on territory taken from the mandate and ruled by a foreign dynasty. He added that the UN in 1947 recommended dividing the remaining 23 percent of the mandate territory west of the Jordan River, with the Jews accepting the plan and the Arabs rejecting it. Betlach asserted that Israel did not steal any land, whereas Britain divided the territory, and Arab states subsequently invaded the remainder. He argued that the accusations should be directed at Britain and Jordan, not at Israel. https://t.co/ugceLv8fS3 #Izrael #Jordánsko #historie (translated)

The author of the post stated that Ukraine had just attacked the largest Russian refinery in Omsk and that residents reported at least two explosions. According to him, the refinery was located about 2,500 kilometers from the Ukrainian borders and was the last of the 11 largest Russian gasoline producers that came within reach of Ukrainian drones. #Ukrajina #Rusko #konflikt #UA #RU (translated)

"The cause lies in Putin's war against Ukraine and against Europe." In response to Frohnmaier's claims, the Christian Democratic representative Knut Abraham accused the AfD of attempting to pit German taxpayers against the victims of Russian aggression. #AfD #PomoćUkrajini #Njemačka (translated)

In episode 1300 of Morning, they talk about the Israeli commemoration of the massacres of October 7, the suspension of classes in France for meetings with students, the case of a woman sentenced to death in Tennessee who is still alive, and the increase in the price of diesel due to the failure to implement mobile excise duties. #Israele #proteste #giustizia (translated)

"Dear radical chic who lives in luxury, keep acting, by the way good at it, but avoid giving unsolicited lessons to Italians." "The rich gentleman who was supposed to testify against me to send me to jail because I closed the ports to illegal immigrants attacks Italy and Italians again," writes Salvini, who then questioningly asks if Italians would be "racists because we do not welcome all the immigrants he would like." #RichardGere #Immigrazione #Salvini (translated)