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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has confirmed he believes that the call to "internationalise the intifada" is a "call to attack Jewish communities around the world".

Conservative MP Julian Lewis asked Starmer in parliament on Tuesday afternoon whether he accepted that there was no possible interpretation of "internationalise the intifada" other than as "a call to attack Jewish communities around the world".

Lewis seemed to be referring to the popular chant "globalise the intifada", often used at pro-Palestine protests. Starmer replied: "There's no other interpretation." He added that he was glad Lewis had raised the point.

Pro-Palestine activists have strongly denied that "globalise the intifada" is antisemitic or a call for violence, and British Jews have been prominent in pro-Palestine marches in the UK.

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The European Commission did not take long to capitulate to comments by Israel’s ambassador to the EU Avi Nir-Feldklein, who said that if the bloc wants to participate in the US plan for Gaza, it must lift the proposed penalties against Israel which EC President Ursula von der Leyen announced last month.

Within a few hours of Nir-Feldklein’s statement, EC spokesperson Paula Pinho said that the sanctions were “proposed in a given context, and if the context changes that could eventually lead to a change of the proposal.” Of course, the EU focused only on the ceasefire not on the Palestinian people’s political rights, so it is highly likely that the belated proposed measures will be reversed, despite the bureaucratic process that might be even briefer, given than there is no angering Israel with reverting to the status quo.

A peace deal, and one that serves Israeli interests, does not cancel out genocide. On the contrary, it rewarded Israel for genocide and consolidated its colonial structure to the detriment of the Palestinian people.

Back to Nir-Feldklein’s discourse of premeditated omission. There will be no “reset of EU-Israeli relations” because proposals are just proposals. The EU was careful not to jeopardise its relations with Israel; the bloc’s actions openly testified to its acceptance of genocide. But this is the Israeli narrative that sells – Israel was wronged, allegedly, by von der Leyen’s very late intention to penalise a colonial, genocidal enterprise, and the EU must now rectify its offence.

The Washington Post joined the New York Times, Newsmax and CNN in refusing to sign the restrictive new policy.

Media across the ideological spectrum said they will not sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy by Tuesday’s afternoon deadline. The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Associated Press and CNN said they wouldn’t sign, as did Newsmax and the Washington Times.

BENGALURU, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Google said on Tuesday it would invest $15 billion over five years to set up an artificial intelligence data centre in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh, its biggest ever investment in the world's most populous nation.

The U.S. tech giant's plan comes amid a tense diplomatic standoff between New Delhi and Washington over tariffs and a stalled trade deal, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged a boycott of foreign goods.

Like, why Valve? I was so close to clearing out all the games I was partway through, now I need to add some demos to my backlog (not many, this Next Fest is kinda weak).

Probably could've made it but I haven't picked a distro. I'm planning on turning my desktop into a dedicated gaming computer and not daily driver, because of the malware risk. I wanted something not finicky, something devs would test on as a known quantity, and preferably something Arch-based like SteamOS.

• Garuda (Arch-based)
• Bazzite (Known quantity, immutable, Fedora-based, I don't trust it for some reason)
• Nobara (Proton-adjacent distro, Fedora-based)
• CachyOS (Super fast, Arch-based, presumably finicky?)
• Windows 7 (Based, unsupported by steam, insecure)