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Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

-Indian writer Pankaj Mishra on the affinity that far-right, fascist parties have for the Zionist regime

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

“It’s more importantly, an emotional identification with a country that uses violence in the most spectacular ways, in the most sort of lawless ways, and suffers no consequences for it. It’s a dream scenario for every kind of far-right, neo-Nazi demagogue out there.”

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Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

“[A]n emotional identification with a country that uses violence in the most spectacular ways, in the most lawless ways & suffers no consequences [...] dream scenario for every kind of far-right, neo-Nazi demagogue”
-Indian writer Pankaj Mishra on affinity of fascist parties for Zionist Israel

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Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

The red flag of vengeance, "O ye avengers of Husayn", raised at Jamkaran Mosque, in Jamkaran, Qom County, Qom Province, Islamic Republic of Iran, in response to unprovoked Zionist aggression and assassinations, on June 13, 2025

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

In the city of Halle, Halle Bezirk, German Democratic Republic, circa 1975

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Indian independence activist Ahaukat Ali poses with the Palestinian flag (with a Dome of the Rock print), with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, and other Palestinian nationalists in Jerusalem, in the Mandate of Palestine, 1931

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Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Flag of Kingdom of Iraq used by pan-Arab volunteer force, Society for the Defense of Palestine, during 1936 Palestinian Revolt against British occupation

Society for the Defense of Palestine was organized into 4 units- Palestinian Muslims, Palestinian Druze, Iraqis, and Syrians

Flag of the Kingdom of Iraq used by the Pan-Arab volunteer force, the Society for the Defense of Palestine, during the 1936 Palestinian Revolt against British occupation

The Society for the Defense of Palestine was organized into four units, mainly composed of Palestinian Muslims, Palestinian Druze, Iraqis, and Syrians.

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Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Russian Party (Serbia, founded in 2013)- Ethnic Russian Interests, Serbian Nationalism, Russophilia

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Defense Minister of Yemen (of the revolutionary Supreme Political Council government) since 2016, Mohammed al-Atifi, pictured circa 2022

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Iran's righteous retaliation against Zionist oil refineries at Haifa in Occupied Palestine in response to Zionist strikes on civilian oil facilities in Iran, on June 15, 2025

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Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Flag of the Kunama people of Eritrea

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Flag of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region in northwestern Ethiopia

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Isfahan in Isfahan County, Isfahan Province, Islamic Republic of Iran

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Iraqi Information Minister (until 2003) & Foreign Minister (1992-2001) Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (Arab Socialist Baath Party), an Iraqi Shia, during amnesty announcement for Kurdish rebels in 1996, during Iraqi Kurdish Civil War, as Saddam Hussein manipulated Kurdish factions against each other

Iraqi Information Minister (until 2003) and Foreign Minister (1992-2001) Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (Arab Socialist Baath Party (Iraq) ), an Iraqi Shia, during an announcement of amnesty for Kurdish rebels, in 1996, during the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War, part of the Saddam Hussein's regime attempts to manipulate the Kurdish factions against each other, and bolster the regime's National Defense Battalions (Kurdish collaborator units)

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Federal Assembly in Prague, Czech Socialist Republic, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, circa 1973

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Red Script flag sometimes used to represent the nation of Palestine, from 1948 to 1955

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Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Uzbek women in the old city of Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, in 1924, shortly after the founding the Uzbek SSR that same year

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Grave of President of National Committee of Free Germany (1943-1945), Erich Weinert (Communist Party KPD, Socialist Unity Party SED), at Socialist Memorial in Berlin, Germany

National Committee of Free Germany- anti-fascist, German exile group based in Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War

Grave containing the urn of the President of the National Committee of Free Germany (1943-1945), Erich Weinert (Communist Party of Germany KPD, Socialist Unity Party of Germany SED), at the Socialist Memorial in Berlin, Germany, pictured on March 19, 2007

The National Committee of Free Germany was an anti-fascist, German exile group based in the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War.

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Former Syrian Arab Army Colonel, Bassel al-Assad (Arab Socialist Baath Party), shortly before Bassel's tragic death in 1994

Bassel al-Assad was the son of late former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, and older brother of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Artistic billboard supporting Ansarallah and the Yemeni revolutionary government (led by the Supreme Political Council or SPC), erected in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2025

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Former Greenlandic Finance Minister (2018), Foreign Minister (2021), Minister of Business and Trade (2021-2022), current Greenlandic MP in the Greenlandic Parliament (since 2018) Pele Broberg (Naleraq "Point of Orientation" party), pictured on May 17, 2021 while still Foreign Minister of Greenland

Former Greenlandic Finance Minister (2018), Foreign Minister (2021), Minister of Business and Trade (2021-22), current Greenlandic MP in the Greenlandic Parliament (since 2018) Pele Broberg (Naleraq "Point of Orientation" party), pictured on May 17, 2021 while still Foreign Minister of Greenland

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Donetsk People's Militia at the Sloviansk City Administration Building in Sloviansk, Donetsk People's Republic, on April 14, 2014

Daire Bulson @dairebulson.bsky.social · Sep 30

Culture Square in Donglan County, Hechi Prefecture (City), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, on May 28, 2015