Twelve passengers, including climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, who were aboard a yacht bound for Gaza with humanitarian aid, have been brought to Ben Gurion Airport for deportation after the vessel was seized in the Israeli port of Ashdod.

The deportation process follows their interception at sea by Israeli forces. Taking to X, the Israel Foreign Ministry said, “The passengers of the ‘Selfie Yacht’ arrived at Ben Gurion Airport to depart from Israel and return to their home countries.” “Those who refuse to sign deportation documents and leave Israel will be brought before a judicial authority,” it added.

The group of activists, part of a mission organised by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), had set out on a journey to deliver critical aid to Gaza, including rice and baby formula. The boat, named Madleen, was reportedly intercepted about 185 kilometres west of the coast of Gaza. A video released by the group showed Israeli forces boarding the vessel as the activists stood with their hands raised, with one of them stating that nobody was injured during the operation.

Following the seizure, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the activists were taken for medical examinations on Monday evening and shown a “horror film documenting the October 7 massacre” committed by Hamas.

“When they saw what it was about, they refused to continue watching,” Gallant claimed, accusing Thunberg and the other activists of ignoring Hamas’s atrocities and “closing their eyes to the truth.” The FFC strongly condemned the operation, accusing Israeli forces of “attacking” and “unlawfully boarding” the vessel.

The coalition said the aid mission was entirely humanitarian, aiming to bring relief to Gaza, which has faced significant restrictions on aid since the beginning of Israel’s blockade. Among those on board were citizens from Brazil, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey. Apart from Greta, the group included notable figures such as Rima Hassan, a French Member of the European Parliament, and Omar Faiad, a French journalist with Al Jazeera. French President Emmanuel Macron was among the leaders who spoke out strongly, urging Israel to release the detained activists swiftly.

“Requested that the six French nationals be allowed to return to France as soon as possible,” said the French presidential office. Macron emphasised France’s commitment to protecting its nationals abroad, stating the country was “vigilant” and “stands by all its nationals when they are in danger.” The French government also demanded Israel ensure the “protection” of the activists, with Macron labelling the humanitarian blockade on Gaza as “a scandal” and a “disgrace.”

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On 3^rd February 2021, Swedish school dropout and alleged ‘climate activist’ accidentally shared a ‘tool kit’ that revealed a sinister plan to run a global propaganda against India. The toolkit had called for breaking the ‘Yoga’ and ‘Chai’ image of India. The activities of the Congress party suggest that they have been been playing by this toolkit in order bring disrepute to India and its traditional knowledge practices. Congress party leaders used the occasion to undermine Yoga and in an attempt to attack Prime Minister Modi, and also to dissociate it with Hinduism.

The Congress party and its eternal youth leader Rahul Gandhi took to playing politics on International Yoga Day 2021. He sent out a tweet in a feeble attempt to attack the BJP and PM Modi in the name of International Yoga Day. In a tweet, Gandhi said, “It’s #YogaDay Not #HideBehindYogaDay.”

Senior Congress leader and former party president Rahul Gandhi 

It’s #YogaDay

Not #HideBehindYogaDay

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) June 21, 2021

National Herald, the official Congress newspaper, carried an article titled, “YOGA is just an exercise, was a Western fad, is not an extension of Hinduism and should be optional.” This article published by the  mouth piece of Congress made blatant attempts to disassociate Yoga and Hinduism. 

Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi has posted a controversial tweet where he said, “Neither Yoga will become more powerful by chanting Om, nor will the power of Yoga be reduced by saying, Allah,”.

ॐ के उच्चारण से ना तो योग ज्यादा शक्तिशाली हो जाएगा और ना अल्लाह कहने से योग की शक्ति कम होगी | #YogaDay2021 #InternationalDayOfYoga

— Abhishek Singhvi (@DrAMSinghvi) June 21, 2021

Senior Congress leader and MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor when asked what his favourite asana was, he posted a graphic of a woman resting on a sofa with a cat captioned ‘Sofasana’.

This one speaks for me! https://t.co/xWnr4LHFqw pic.twitter.com/8P8wXKjlAd

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) June 21, 2021

In February 2021, just weeks after the Greta Thunberg’s toolkit expose, the Congress MP posted a tweet mocking Yoga filled with sexual innuendos while trying to criticize the Modi government.

It’s #NationalYogaDay every day the BJP is in power! pic.twitter.com/SiNfvrS3yL

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) February 21, 2021

From the looks of it, it appears that the Congress party is voluntarily or involuntarily playing by Greta Thunbeerg’s toolkit which was a ready reckoner on how to make the ‘farmer protest’ in India receive a wider audience thereby making it a global conspiracy to defame India. 

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Lebanese-American porn sensation Mia Khalifa has again courted controversy. She recently sent out a tweet on microblogging website Twitter attacking the Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

Her tweet read, “F**k the Pope”.

Fuck the Pope.

— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) March 15, 2021

The tweet and the outrage against Pope Francis and the Church comes after a recent Vatican decree that reaffirms the old Church teaching against homosexuality and bars priests from blessing same-sex unions.

The Pope, who is the vicar of Christ and the successor of St. Peter, is considered as the “earthly representative of Christ on Earth”. The Pope is a revered figure for millions of Catholics around the world.

Earlier, Mia Khalifa had famously plowed her way to notoriety when she sent out a tweet in support of the Indian farmers agitating against the Centre’s farm bills.

Mia Khalifa, tweeting a picture of a protesting Sikh farmer, had written, “Paid actors, huh? Quite the casting director, I hope they’re not overlooked during awards season. I stand with the farmers. #FarmersProtest.”

“Paid actors,” huh? Quite the casting director, I hope they’re not overlooked during awards season. I stand with the farmers. #FarmersProtest pic.twitter.com/moONj03tN0

— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) February 3, 2021

Khalifa also alleged that there were human rights violations when internet services were suspended in New Delhi at the time of the violent protests.

What in the human rights violations is going on?! They cut the internet around New Delhi?! #FarmersProtest pic.twitter.com/a5ml1P2ikU

— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) February 3, 2021

Apart from Mia Khalifa, popular entertainer Rihanna and radical climate activist Greta Thunberg too had tweeted in support of the farmers’ protests.

Political commentator Shehzad Poonawala sent out a tweet and asked Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi what he has to says about the objectionable words use by Mia Khalifa against the Pope.

https://twitter.com/Shehzad_Ind/status/1372059273442721795

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The coalition government in Maharashtra consisting of the Shiv Sena, NCP and the Congress, which had received many accolades from Bollywood celebrities at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, is now up in arms against some of the biggest stars in the film industry. 

In a very menacing manner, Maharashtra Congress Chief Nana Patole threatened to stop the release of Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar’s films if they do not stand with the opposition on the recent fuel price hike in the country.

https://twitter.com/Shehzad_Ind/status/1362329800577191938

Patole was angry after many top Bollywood actors came to support India over the issue concerning the Greta Thunberg ‘toolkit’ and the tweets sent by pop star Rihanna and popular porn star Mia Khalifa. 
 
A while back, the Maharashtra government had instituted a probe against cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar and iconic playback singer Lata Mangeshkar for a tweet. Both of them are the recipients of India’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna.

The two living icons had called for national unity through their official Twitter handles in the wake of the violence by protesting farmers in Delhi on January 26, and had also spoken on why foreign nations do not have the right to interfere in the internal matters of India.
 
Patole publicly berated Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar. Arguing that both the actors had taken a stand on fuel prices when the Congress-led UPA was in power, he said that they must now take a stand against the fuel price rise now. He said that the Congress will stop the shooting of films and added that there will be no screening of their films in the state.
 
Patole was the speaker of Maharashtra assembly and took over as the Congress chief in the state just a few days ago.
 
During the height of the Emergency, singer Kishore Kumar and his songs were banned from All India Radio because he did not support the unconstitutionally imposed Emergency by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Actor Dev Anand’s films were banned also from Doordarshan after he refused to praise Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi.
 
The lyricist Mazrooh Sultanpoori spent two years in jail for writing a poem criticising Jawaharlal Nehru.

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Delhi Police on Sunday had arrested 21-year-old Disha Ravi on Saturday February 14 from Bengaluru, for editing and distributing the toolkit that was accidentally leaked by Swedish radical activist Greta Thunberg. The toolkit was aimed at building international pressure on the issue of the farmers’ protests, in order to force the government to withdraw the farm laws. A Delhi Magistrate on Sunday remanded her to five days of police custody.

Now, according to news reports, the police have also accessed the WhatsApp chat between the two activists.

On February 4, Special Cell of Delhi Police had registered a case against the creators of the ‘toolkit’ on farmer protests under sections of the Indian Penal Code relating to sedition, criminal conspiracy and promoting hatred among groups namely under Sections 124A, 120A and 153 A of the IPC. A Delhi court has also issued non-bailable warrants against Nikita Jacob and Shantanu, another two accused in the case.

According to reports by News18, Disha Ravi ― to deflect the charges brought against her ― had made several false statements to the Delhi police. However, when confronted with incriminating evidence from her digital devices, including her Whatsapp conversations with Greta Thunberg, Disha admitted to having been in touch with several people involved with the toolkit. Disha had also attempted to conceal details about her having been in contact with the other accused Nikita Jacob, who is believed to be currently on the run from law enforcement.

Investigations by the police also revealed that Disha had expressed her misgivings regarding the consequences of her involvement in the making of the toolkit. She had also voiced her fears of being charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in a WhatsApp conversation with the Swede. After Thunberg had leaked the incriminating document on Twitter, Disha had said, “Can we just not say anything at all for a while. I am going to talk to lawyers.”

https://twitter.com/CNNnews18/status/1361235100680261632

Delhi Police are also digging into Disha’s Gmail account to unearth any emails that were exchanged between her and the other accused. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is also set to begin their investigation into any possible overseas transactions made by Disha Ravi through her organisation, Fridays for Future (FFF), in the past 5 years. The National Investigative Agency (NIA) is also expected to provide support in the case, given that several links with Khalistani organisations have now surfaced.

Online meeting with Poetic Justice Foundation’s Mo Dhaliwal

As per reports, Disha Ravi and Nikita Jacob had taken part in an online meeting with Poetic Justice Foundation’s Mo Dhaliwal. Dhaliwal is a self-proclaimed ‘proud Khalistani’ residing in Canada. A close friend of Canadian MP Jagmeet Singh, he has been orchestrating several protests in Canada and elsewhere to garner support within the Sikh diaspora for the agitating farmers in India. Nikita and Disha’s meeting with Dhaliwal was to discuss and plan a ‘Twitter storm’ ahead of India’s Republic Day, when the nation witnessed an outbreak of violence by the agitators in the national capital.

In the Zoom meeting, the group of three had formulated a plan to post messages, graphics and videos ahead of Republic Day to spread propaganda against the Indian administration in the backdrop of the farmers’ protests. They had decided to give the issue greater visibility internationally, which is why they contacted celebrities, including Greta Thunberg, Rihanna, Mia Khalifa and others.

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Delhi police on Saturday arrested Bengaluru-based climate activist Disha Ravi in connection with the Greta Thunberg ‘toolkit’ case.

Thunberg, a Swedish radical activist fighting for extreme action to be taken to halt climate change on Earth, had shared a ‘toolkit’ on social media platform Twitter with instructions on how to build international pressure on the Indian government to force it to repeal the farm laws.

Disha Ravi is one of the founders of the ‘Fridays For Future’ campaign in India. She was arrested from her house in the Soladevanahalli police station limits in Bengaluru by a Special Cell of the Delhi Police. A Delhi Magistrate on Sunday remanded the accused to five days of police custody.

According to the police, Disha Ravi played an important role in spreading the “toolkit” that was shared to Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg to show support for the farmers agitating near the national capital. The police said that her custody was necessary to probe an alleged larger conspiracy against the government of India and to ascertain her involvement, if any, in the Khalistan movement.

Inside the courtroom, Disha Ravi broke down during the hearing and admitted to the judge that she had edited only two lines as she wanted to support the farmers’ protest. Duty Magistrate Dev Saroha allowed the Delhi Police to quiz Ravi for five days.

While seeking her custody, the police told the court that the activist had allegedly edited the “toolkit” on February 3 and many other people are involved in the matter. According to the police, Disha Ravi is an Editor of the Toolkit Google Document and a key conspirator in document’s formulation and dissemination. She started a WhatsApp group and collaborated to make the Toolkit document. She worked closely with others to draft the Document. In this process, they all collaborated with the Poetic Justice Foundation, a pro-Khalistani organisation based in Canada, to spread disaffection against the Indian State. Disha Ravi was the one who shared the Toolkit Doc with Greta Thunberg. Later, the police allege, she also asked Greta to remove the main document after its incriminating details were accidentally released into the public domain. The police also informed the court that they have recovered the mobile phone of the activist.

Earlier, the Delhi Police had asked Google and some social media giants to provide information about email ID, URLs and certain social media accounts related to the creators of the “toolkit” shared by Thunberg and others on Twitter in connection with the farmers’ protest. The Cyber Cell had lodged an FIR against “pro-Khalistan” creators of the “toolkit” for waging a “social, cultural and economic war against the government of India”. The case against unnamed persons was registered on charges of criminal conspiracy, sedition and various other sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The “toolkit” was aimed at spreading disaffection and ill-will against the government of India and creating disharmony among various social, religious and cultural groups, the police had claimed.

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YouTube channel String’s latest video that exposed the design laid out in the Greta Thunberg Toolkit which contained names of several media houses, journalists and ‘activists’, has been removed by the video streaming and sharing platform citing ‘harassment and bullying’.

Vinodh, the host of the show String Reveals, had explained the nexus between institutions funded by George Soros, certain India media entities and a few ‘activists’, and how a coordinated social media propaganda on the ‘farmers’ protest was being carried out with help from both inside and outside the country.

String had shed light on DIGIPUB, an association of media entities like The Wire, Scroll, The Quint, The News Minute, Newslaundry, Alt News, etc and how these media entities and its associated journalists found mention in Greta’s ‘tool kit’ that had details to carry out a nefarious propaganda against India.

The video also exposed how a foreign individual named Annalisa Merelli had endorsed these media outlets to channel funds to them days before Greta Thunberg shared the tool.

https://twitter.com/missanabeem/status/1356202957793087488

This expose of String had crossed several lakh views garnering the attention of several high profile personalities.

However, this video has now been removed by YouTube on the ground of ‘violating YouTube’s policy on harassment and bullying’.

The video seems to have been mass reported.

String has now appealed to YouTube headquarters demanding clarification for removing their video. The channel is also exploring other legal options.

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Evidence of Congress’ role in the global conspiracy against India has emerged in which the party’s Kerala unit had tweeted the exact content that has been found in the ‘tool kit’ shared by child protestor Greta Thunberg.

The ‘tool kit’ (accidentally) shared by the school dropout ‘activist’ revealed a sinister plan to run a global propaganda against India. The document titled ‘Global Farmers’ Strike – First Wave’ provides a list of ‘urgent actions’ and ‘prior actions’ to orchestrate the ‘largest protest’ in human history. It also had a section of ‘suggested posts’ which had readymade texts to be tweeted.

One such suggested post had pop star Rihanna’s handle mentioned which was also incidentally the same tweet put

Likewise, the verified Twitter handle of the party’s women’s wing in Kerala, the Kerala Pradesh Mahila Congress had tweeted word by word from the ‘tool kit’.

It is to be noted that this tweet by the Kerala Pradesh Mahila Congress was put out on January 18, days before violent protests rocked Delhi on January 26. This tweet has now been deleted.

This document which contains elaborate instructions to carry out a global propaganda against India has now stirred up a hornet’s nest exposing several individuals including a section of journalists and opposition leaders.

It is being said that the entire document has been shared with influencers across the world to build a propaganda against India.

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After pop star Rihanna, porn star Mia Khalifa and school dropout ‘activist’ Greta Thunberg, the latest to join the coterie of influencers unleashing anti-India propaganda is Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

Dorsey already has a history of interfering into India’s internal matters and now the CEO of the micro-blogging site has exposed his anti-India bias by endorsing unsubstantiated tweets hailing singer-actress Rihanna who has called for intervention into India’s domestic politics.

Global Opinions Editor of The Washington Post, Karen Attiah, on Tuesday  hailing Rihanna’s intervention tweeted that Rihanna has ‘shook the Indian Government’.

She also stated that the pop star has raised her voice for social justice movements in Sudan, Nigeria, Myanmar and now in India.

Karen also demanded that Twitter come out with an emoji in support of the ‘farmer’ protests like they did for Black Lives Matter. 

All these tweets were liked by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey who was recently pulled up by the Indian Government for giving space to a controversial hashtag that claimed that India was carrying out a ‘farmer genocide’. Around 250 accounts were withheld for tweeting, or retweeting, with the #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide hashtag, and making “fake, intimidatory and provocative tweets” in connection with the ongoing ‘farmers’ protest. But the social media giant began unlocking some of them later. Many Twitter handles including that of anti-Hindu and anti-India magazine The Caravan, Rahul Gandhi fan lady Sanjukta Basu, founder of Tribal Army Hansraj Meena were withheld. However, Twitter restored them within hours. 

For a long time, Twitter has used its unilateral power to promote or silence individuals or hashtags. Several prominent Indians who are on the opposite side of the left have often complained that their number of followers never increases because Twitter won’t allow it. 

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Pop star Rihanna on Tuesday tweeted about the farmers protests at Delhi’s borders, earning heavy criticism from Indian netizens on Twitter. Rihanna posted a CNN news report about the temporary internet shutdown around New Delhi and tweeted, “why aren’t we talking about this?! #FarmersProtest”.

why aren’t we talking about this?! #FarmersProtest https://t.co/obmIlXhK9S

— Rihanna (@rihanna) February 2, 2021

Rihanna ―who has earlier faced allegations of cocaine abuse when a video of her snorting a white substance at the Coachella music festival in 2015 had gone viral ― faced a lot of flak from Indians for her tweet.

Quote tweeting Rihanna’s tweet, Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut lashed out with this tweet, “No one is talking about it because they are not farmers they are terrorists who are trying to divide India, so that China can take over our vulnerable broken nation and make it a Chinese colony much like USA. Sit down you fool, we are not selling our nation like you dummies.”

https://twitter.com/KanganaTeam/status/1356640083546406913

Former cricketer Pragyan Ojha too replied to the pop star, and said that Indians don’t need an outsider poking their nose into the nation’s internal matters.

My country is proud of our farmers and knows how important they are, I trust it will be addressed soon. We don’t need an outsider poking her nose in our internal matters!

— Pragyan Ojha (@pragyanojha) February 2, 2021

Swedish radical ‘climate activist’ and teenager Greta Thunberg also tweeted in support of the protests on Wednesday, when she shared the same CNN news report that Rihanna had earlier shared and tweeted, “We stand in solidarity with the #FarmersProtest in India”.

We stand in solidarity with the #FarmersProtest in India.
https://t.co/tqvR0oHgo0

— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) February 2, 2021

The 18 year-old Thunberg, who once said that politicians should be “put to the wall” and later had to apologise for it, has been panned by critics in the past for her ill-informed opinions on the nature of climate action.

On 26 January, Republic Day, the farmer-agitators had rioted across the national capital, damaging public property and severely injuring over a hundred policemen. They had also hoisted Sikh and Khalistani flags on top of the Red Fort.

Journalist Ashok Shrivastav, on Twitter, shared a heart-warming cartoon created by artist ArtKrafter, pointing out the pains suffered by policemen and their families by last week’s riots.

निःशब्द ! pic.twitter.com/6doeXdnAaL

— Ashok Shrivastav (@AshokShrivasta6) February 1, 2021

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