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Making (through the private link) available an old scrappy project I did back in undergrad: a 2 hr montage of how the Zionist movement has self-described, in their own words, over the past century.
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wow 30 days, almost a month in most cases. i see why there are so few draft dodgers
Tal Mitnick, an 18-year-old from Tel-Aviv, just refused to enlist in the Israeli army to protest the war in Gaza and the occupation.
He was sentenced to 30 days in prison.
He's a hero and also the sweetest kid.
@TalMitnick
@Mesarvot_
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Not to belabor the point, but we've seen hundreds (thousands?) of students, workers, and white-collar professionals like uni professors face violent arrest over the past 1.5 weeks in response to "foreign war". Israel has produced 3 (three) conscientious objectors since October.
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This point wouldn't need belaboring if we could accept that Israel constitutes maybe the most straightforward, unnuanced representation of a labor/settler aristocracy today. Equality will *not* come from within. Hence, the necessity for external struggle in any form it may take
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*2023 israeli leftist voice* ive been a committed leftist since you were in diapers kiddo... poured one out for yitzhak rabin, called for more public parks funding-- but telling us to give up the militarized volkstaat is more than just illogical, it's crossing a fucking line
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Bewildering that all consternation is directed at *imagining* that someone devalued his act, rather than towards the fact that Israeli society has produced a single conscientious objector in the past 3 months
הפגנת סולידריות עם טל מיטניק, סרבן גיוס ראשון מאז המלחמה. טל אומר לא לכיבוש ולטבח והיום הוא נכנס לכלא על זה.
Solidarity protest with Tal Mitnik, first refusenik since war started. Tal says no to the occupation & mass murder, today he is jailed for it.
ביי טל
נתראה כשאתה בחוץ
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insane that people are arguing about even the conceptual plausibility of 3rd worldism while people are scrolling past the modern world's most coherent demonstration of an entire classed (from upper to working) society fervently organized as an eliminationist garrison force
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50,000 years of directed hunting leading to the steady (and occasionally rapid) decline of megafauna vs an almost "automatic" cascade of 1000 to 10000 species gong extinct every year
Good reminder for anyone who thinks humans lived "in harmony" with nature before capitalism or industrial production or whatever. We've been driving species extinct for 100,000 years.
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@afromaterialism
ive read these reports b4. conscientious objectors serve 3-12 weeks cumulatively in normal times, 4-6 months when they wish to make a show, and a year in the worst case. and yet israeli conscientious objection is effectively non-existent compared to Vietnam or present-day Russia
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Endnotes is looking at Jacobin and cooking up something immensely evil about Palestine to make sure they're not left behind
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We're inviting all Gazans to attend our third annual May Day Picnic, hosted by the Democrat Socialists of America (Berlin Chapter), where we'll be reading an advanced copy of Bhaskar's new piece, "The People's Sandwich: How American Socialism Made the Mayonnaise Jar"
Organized democratic mass politics isn’t easy, but it’s got a great track record and doesn’t involve mowing down elderly women with machine guns. Many on the Palestinian left, which is not a monolith dominated by Hamas, actually prefer it to terrorist attacks on civilians
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so it is okay now to ask why so few israelis (1 official) have conscientiously objected since oct? i have genuinely seen 0 response despite endless recourse to talking about sentencing and sanctions that are either in line with or less severe than similar triggers of mass refusal
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How did Israel end up circulating footage of war crimes committed against Kurdish soldiers as evidence of sexual violence from Oct 7th? They crowd-sourced their visual material from snuff-film emporium, Telegram
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Amira Hass is one of Haaretz’s most fiercely critical columnists against Israel’s abuses of Palestinians. She joined the Freedom Flotilla & went to Gaza multiple times.
Her report on Gazans’ anger at Hamas, its repression & Arab media’s hesitancy to cover that is worth reading:
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🚨USER COMES FROM COUTRY WHERE ENTIRE POLITICAL SPECTRUM IS (NEAR) SUPPORTIVE OF EVERYTHING LISTED BELOW EXCEPT PALESTINE🚨
🚨USER STUDIES IN COUNTRY WHERE ENTIRE POLITICAL SPECTRUM IS SUPPORTIVE OF EVERYTHING LISTED BELOW EXCEPT PALESTINE🚨
mycelium - notes on imperialism
in online leftist spaces the overlap between solidarity for victims of western imperialism and solidarity for victims of non-western imperialism appears diminishingly small. the same is true of activist spaces i'm involved with in real life. 1/
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another sign the BBC is just illiterately leeching from hitlerite particle twitter: they've copied and pasted a translation from another part of this video, both widely circulated by hamas-watcher ('OSINT') twitter, onto this clip, and had no one supervising who could tell
This egregious mistranslation is not just a language error; it is a racist fabrication that fans the flames of the war.
The full video, including
@BBC
's erroneous English subtitles:
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Jacobin's Aphorisms of Marxism:
- Sharing is caring
- Most people are not illegal
- I don't care if you're white, black, or even purple
- Philosophers regularly ignore the revolutionary implications of John Rawl's veil of ignorance
- Officer, I did not know she was below the ag
Glad to have finally had a chance to write this--it's been sitting in my head for a long time.
Zionism and what I call here "the anti-Zionism of fools" should both be rejected on the basis of basic Enlightenment principles. Everyone deserves equal rights just for being a person.
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nils gilman tier pseud
this is not the world of Khaleds and Rabins, it's the world of Sinwars and Smotriches
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👇 we're approaching 130 days of herrenvolk slaughter and the american "pragmatist left" still can't get over their allergy of any mention of settler colonialism
this is just blood and soil nationalism replaced with left-affect words
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the absolute unit when he watches a garrison of settlers set fire to a 13 year old palestinian
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Hamas is certainly more of a "pragmatist" org than many understand it to be, but though it's begrudgingly adapted to deploy the language of the 2-state (albeit framed as a transition), the constant emphasis on the right of return makes them unacceptable to the genocide/bantu camp
even hamas keeps releasing statements like "the ultimate goal of our resistance is the establishment of a palestinian state on the 1967 borders with east jerusalem as its capital". here's ismail haniyeh, literally today. lol
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lol you complete pseud. your average palestinian is 10x more likely to know about izz al-din al-qassam than the mufti, whose name survives mainly among zionists. your average arab has no shot of knowing who he is. The problematic nationalist 🇵🇸's trace their heritage to is Arafat
Two peas in a pod: reactionary nationalists who collaborated with the Axis powers in the hope of getting an independent state out of it. Yet, still retain a cult of personality as nationalist heroes within significant parts of their respective nations & its 'official' mythology.
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Harder to think of a more useless sycophant academic over the course of this entire genocide. The inferior races have now offended her sensibilites by calling for a boycott in the midst of their extermination
BDS has called to boycott Standing Together (
@omdimbeyachad
), an org I proudly support.
BDS describes it as a "Israeli normalization org" that “whitewash[es] Israel’s ongoing genocide."
This is counter-productive, circular firing squad purism. 🧵
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Another reason that 'intent-based' frameworks are basically a deadend for preventing actual mass extermination campaigns: it's trivially easy to displace 'the intentional targeting of a people as a people' onto some tactical heuristic bound with sovereign rights to natl security
@cix_eria
obscurity to create not-very-plausible deniability about strategic mass killing of civilians. The AI doesn't do anything by itself, it's just the intel buzzword de jour...Shin Bet has been fabricating secret targeting info for decades
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officer, i'm not being racist, rather it is my opponents (my colleagues), who cynically believe that indigenous peoples of the americas have something of worth to contribute
The reason people scoff is that, at least in academia, "indigeneity" has become a magic word that is evacuated of both historical and cultural specificity, flattens all differences between indigenous groups, and is accompanied by exoticizing appeals to pre-rational "wisdom" 1/
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@joolsd
Right they've argued that group affiliation undermines objections on grounds of personal conscience and, like with crackdowns on piracy, the tactic is doing selective campaigns against a handful of demonstrators during "times of crisis" and sentencing others to 3-12 weeks
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No one is denying that he'll face social sanctions or his bravery: the question is why a society that has governed over the world's longest occupation, which typically sentences dodgers in the scale of weeks to 6 months, & in which the armed forces are currently participating in
tbh 30 days of being banged up by, and with, people who regard you as a traitor and a coward and a defector and a defaulter and unworthy of the protection of the society whose norms you have refused sounds like plenty
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unless you're sipping stupid juice from some italian leftcom book club, sharing communiques written by octagenarian vets of the nonce splinter of the 4th international, or sewn yourself to the corpse of labor zionism, you've implicitly accepted the idea of a labor aristocracy
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Tbh we're in uncharted waters. If you had asked me in 2018, I would've assumed that Israel would continue its gradual enclosure on Gaza + eventually annexed the West Bank, breaking the nominal illusion of the 2-state & reconfiguring Palestinian resistance (for better and worse)
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maybe people don't treat the two similarly because one position champions the actually-existing stance of the western/european geopolitical bloc that is currently incinerating palestinians as we speak
it's rightly common to call out the hypocrisy of pro-🇺🇦 and anti-🇵🇸 ppl, but when somebody points out the hypocrisy of pro-🇵🇸 and anti-🇺🇦 ppl, responses are always: a) concern about "russophobia", b) saying that israel is settler colonial (correct) while russia isn't (it is)
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An ordained rabbi and former AIPAC staffer's tweets are indistinguishable in form and content from that of your average neo-Nazi account
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pov: you've died of a kidney stone after winning the baja blast chug contest at a red scare live recording and now you await your sentence at the gates of hell
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I have yet to see any clarification as to *why* IDF soldiers opened fire into a crowd, killing 100 and injuring hundreds more. "Over-crowding" is a description of a situation, not a reasonable justification for violence.
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@afromaterialism
Which had far more conscientious objectors by the 80s and the 90s, as well as a rich tradition of white communists that joined up with the SACP, UwS, and compatriot organizations. About none of which exist in Israel
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tbh if you're a "leftist" and you're not grilling up some brats, got a micro-brew chilling in your wet-bar, or, uh, warming up some ziti, i don't know what you're even doing. you need to start grabbing some triple fried pizza dough, or some kind of frozen meatballs or whatev
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one of the most ruthless extermination campaigns of the 21st Century, produces so few political objectors, consistently, in contrast to a diverse array of nations like Vietnam-era US, Apartheid South Africa, or present-day Russia, South Korea, Turkey and Eritrea
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tbh piketty is annoying but gotta be careful with those glass houses. those basic marxist IPE arguments are regularly dismissed or ignored by large swathes of "marxian political economists"
Love how this guy repeats basic marxist international political economy arguments decades later lol
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None of these factors -- I think -- provide a satisfactory explanation as to why conscientious objection is and remains so marginal, unless we take seriously that while Netanyahu or Ben-Gvir may be deeply unpopular among Israeli society, the war against Gazans is not.
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lots of insane idiots on this topic. taking uighur militants that joined isis/similar salafist orgs in syria as a cipher for uighur politics tells you as much as focusing on palestinian militants that joined isis/similar salafist orgs in syria as a cipher for palestinian politics
“The Palestinian cause is linked to the Uyghur cause” yeah sure just not in the way you think lol
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What actually distinguished the PLO and the history of Palestinian resistance from most other anti-colonial movements? The allergy to the state.
Anti-colonial movements that followed the general formula of protracted people's war -- long-lasting rural insurgencies, where the
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Heated endnotes moment: when it's become too obviously odious to ignore colonial domination, but you'd still rather avoid crediting any historical or universal significance of indigenous opposition to it (an exception for an enlightened ngo of the israeli left)
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2 things:
1) Settler and fascist psychosociality weds together perceptions of extreme physical superiority and extreme spiritual vulnerability, in this case neatly captured in the "Sabra" self-conception of Israelis. This provides the confidence of conquerors and the paranoia of
It's not surprising that Israelis are ignoring civilian suffering in Gaza - most are cheering it on. What is baffling is that they genuinely believe they're in an existential struggle. They're unable to fathom that they're a nuclear-armed regional power.
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My "We're not facilitating a Nakba, we're just preparing for a scenario in which Palestinians escape the siege we've imposed, and we can't stop them, so we hurdle them into a camp off Palestinian territory" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
The
@washingtonpost
confirms that Egypt is preparing an isolated area on its border with Rafah for potential Palestinian refugees.
However, the report also confirmed my analysis; when I said the Egyptian logic is more to prepare for a scenario in which Palestinians escape the…
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Half a year into the genocide, 18yo Ben Arad has become the 3rd Israeli conscientious objector
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@afromaterialism
And the similarities to Apartheid are as misleading as they are fruitful: the structure of settler colonization in Palestine is not about producing a semi-internalized sub-legal proletarian class through a bifurcates legal order; it's about eliminating the Palestinian population
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hitting you with that nlr stare
Dylan Riley on interpretations of W. E. B. Du Bois:
‘Du Bois is a deeply American thinker whose critique of capitalism is more republican than socialist.’
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Some mathematicians have suggested that, given an infinite amount of time, even a political scientist might come to learn where mommy face go when playing peakaboo
would the idf intentionally target aid workers? no
would they intentionally target aid convoys they believe hamas is hiding in? yes
@gzeromedia
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While the "people at the top" do agree, I think it doesn't explain the lack of enforcement. Instead, off the cuff, two factors seem pivotal here:
- widespread embrace of Kahane/"Jewish Power" ethos by civil society
- functional use of these videos to maintain popular incitement
the IDF doesnt “enforce tighter controls” because the people at the top agree with these genocidal tiktokers, if you think these videos are bad wait until you hear about Netanyahu’s clear-as-day, thoroughly reported plan to depopulate Gaza, complete with a powerpoint presentation
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One reason I've been allergic to most talk of "agency" over the past decade: the ongoing conflation of agency as ethical accountability ("responsible"), agency as the negation of heteronomy ("choices"), and agency as a factor of influence ("shape") has evacuated any clear meaning
If your understanding of “agency” is identical to “moral culpability” then you’re building on the grand legacy of racial dehumanization. Or you’re talking about something completely different
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The problem with the USSR's post-67 view of Zionism is that they read its crimes exclusively in light of its ties to American imperialism rather than foundation (hence, the 2-state orientation). The problem with mainstream Israeli communists tendencies is that they do the same.
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The men are mirror images of each other: Refaat fled a schoolground because Israel threatened to assassinate him and everyone in it; and Shaiai isn't legally allowed within 500 ft of a school, kindergarten, or nursery
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Liberals broadly hold that extreme discontent is an illegitimate aberration in liberal society. Responses either range from deflating (e.g. medicalization of discontent) or sanctifying, turning discontent into stable, regular forms of contention that are institutionally-affirming
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It's actually cool to concede that Palestinian slogans are liable to latent antisemitic sentiments that some gringo pulled out their ass and, as such, Israelis and the US will keenly reward your honesty and forthcomingness by not hounding you over whatever slogan you next deploy
Could someone please explain what is the upside of using ambiguous slogans that let our opponents divert the conversation away from the mass slaughter of Palestinian civilians?
If you really must say "From the river to the sea", find a different name for the country it refers to.
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Butler pumps out a new proclamation each month that negates its immediate predecessor in value & perception. It's the crit theory equivalent of grand guignol theater or riding a steel coaster. Them and wendy brown are cooking up a john fetterman donation as we speak
FYI they still do not support militancy, they are still against “violence”
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According to a France24 report, on February 25th, Sofia Orr will refuse enlistment in the IDF, bringing the number of conscientious objectors since October up to 2.
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@por_ous
Feigning that all regional expressions of solidarity to the Palestinians is just rote cynicism, driven by raw bigotry, or a pawn in 4-dimensional geopolitics returns Palestinian politics back to the preserve of "good and serious" Westerners, who know how and when to critique 🇮🇱
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Not an international law guy, but Israel formally moving into the status of a global pariah state -- especially when it refuses a verdict binding on all member-states of the UN -- a) follows the not unimportant precedent of apartheid-era South Africa and b) fortifies the
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I saw Alex Hochuli at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him, not being Jewish OR directly affected Palestinian and all.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, a
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instructive in demonstrating one point: israel does not consider its daily laundry list of abuses -- kidnapping children as detainees, ritual humiliation in jerusalem, refusing medical treatment for gazans, or gunning down civs in the WB -- as violations of a ceasefire. pals do.
“Remember there was a ceasefire on October 6th, that Hamas broke by their barbaric assault on peaceful civilians.”
Listen to this thorough and comprehensive historical analysis by
@HillaryClinton
on the current war against Hamas.
Watch:
📸
@TheView
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🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Fraudsters from Ukraine scammed the Israelis out of 2 million dollars in one day on the back of Iran's attack on Israel. They messaged the Israeli public pretending to be from Israel Ministry of Defence and told them that the money was for the missiles for the Iron Dome. 🤦♀️🤦♀️
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Let me take a big sip of tea and look up how "Jewish" is pronounced in Hebrew
“Palestine” 🇵🇸 is the only country in the world that has a name with a letter that doesn't exist in its alphabet. There is no “P” in Arabic.
The name “Palestine” comes from Philistines and Roman province of Judea-Palestina, nothing to do with today's “Palestinians”.
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most striking re-reading the thompson-davis exterminism debate is how few tears thompson had to spare for anybody who wasn't a european and, ironic given his hatred of althusser, how inclined he was to take every opportunity to bludgeon "sentimentality" among anti-imperialists
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"red lines" when the American hegemon is willing to suicide its own ruling party to shield Israel. Finally, between the strengthening of the militant Resistance axis and the ensuing diplomatic alienation of Israel, the Israeli thought-process is now in its most dangerous phase,
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@joolsd
This comes with having a colonial identity that assimilates rather than invents. There was far less investment from South African leftists in redeeming the identity of being a Boer, while Israel, unlike South Africa, claims an identity of far greater age and significance
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5 months of israeli chatter about the iof saving europe from the hordes of barbarism and western zionists (the "soft" variants especially) still want to pretend like israel's racial structure, both globally and domestically, is completely illegible to outsiders
"I'm Jewish, not white" is the most ridiculous thing I've seen all day. Even among Israeli Jews, most (if not all) Ashkenazis definitely see themselves as white. Actually, even many Mizrahis do as well.
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Trying to understand why Palestinian activists haven't spent more time in Israel. Can anyone help me out?
Some corners of the pro-Palestine movement have taken issue w/ this, demanding Standing Together operate in a decontextualised & likely ineffective manner divorced from Israel’s realities. Many have not personally spent time in Israel & see doing so as traitorous to the cause.
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:/ how are we supposed to take seriously westerners when they import american racial standards to a middle eastern nation. anyways, time to take a big sip of vimto and hit translate on this israeli minister's tweet
מהיום הנסיעות לאילת כבר לא יהיו אותו הדבר. לא תהיה יותר את העצירה בפונדק של כושי רימון, לשמוע את סיפורי ההסתננות וההצלה מפטרה ועל הגבורות כלוחם בצנחנים. אהבתי אותך מאוד כושי. נוח על משכבך בשלום גיבור ישראל. יהי זכרך ברוך.
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in the u$ case during vietnam, dodgers faced several years of prison and a hefty fine. 200k were charged with evasion, 300k never charged, 100k left the country entirely.
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ok the irony of herzog's visit is horrific but... has no one ever opened a wikipedia article on paul kagame?
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Leftists hate this analogy, but the anxiety/grief over Zionism is interestingly similar to the disappointment with Shenmue and its sequels. Complete with the happy, poignant memories of childhood visits and the multidecadal symbolic venerations of a Big Series.
Leftists hate this analogy, but the anxiety/grief over Zionism is interestingly similar to the disappointment with the Soviet Union and its imitators. Complete with the happy, poignant memories of ideological tourism and the multigenerational family commitments to a Big Idea.
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anyways, the constant invocation of "western left" covers up for the fact that much of whatever political approach people dislike (e.g. 'campism,' 'populism,' "distributional > production struggles") is relatively common across the globe. worth asking why
i dislike binaries, but here i use this one - western vs. non-western - because it's the same that many anglophone leftists choose to adopt in their worldview. this binary is violent, a product of a long history of colonialisms and imperialisms that as leftists we are 2/
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proud to announce my new project, Monkey Smash Family Court Pod, where me and some of my closest friends -- nils gilman, tyler austin harper, alex hochuli, leigh phillips, arash azizi, adam schatz, lindyman, yair wallach, dylann roof (no relation), catherine liu, and anders breiv
This isn’t just a contradiction coming to a head, it’s an intractable problem that may well light elite academia on fire. You have a customer base that demands social justice and a donor base that is concerned with elite reproduction. The financial model requires both groups. 1/
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If only all these armchair radicals could encourage the Palestinians to negotiate a non-binding set of accords with Israel, which could demilitarize militants, set up an administrative apparatus in the Occupied Territories, and depending on good behavior make a pathway for a 2-st
In 1973, Maxime Rodinson wrote a book arguing that Israel is, indeed, a settler colonial state. His conclusion to the book feels relevant today.
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*moral authority voice* I was uhhhh serving the Pentagon dueing the Arab Spring and uhhhhh we did,, how you say,, what we had to in Bahrain
I was serving at the Pentagon during the Arab Spring and we did not hesitate to have debates on, and use, our leverage when needed, with countries like Egypt and Bahrain.
Yet this US admin will use any excuse to justify not doing the same with Israel.
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It was crazy when he followed it up with this
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Columbia’s crackdown is obviously a violation of rights to free speech and makes no one safer, but fact remains that much of the Palestine organizing being done at Columbia was and still is antisemitic
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the best part about the hegemony of "neoliberal critique" is that every shithead conservative can rewarm 20th century conserve crusades against anti-racism, immigration, cultural deviants, etc in the garb of defending some "pre-neoliberal subjectivity" or "consensus"
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I am asking all pure italian-blooded autonomist: tell me how this national Israeli "self-valorizing value" supposedly functions in the Gaza Strip. Is it hiding in the rubble? Under sand? Are Merkavas Zelle-integrated? Is it in the room with us right now?
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Palestinian fedayeen wiped out entire save files of disgaea 4 and europa universalis 3, and you're laughing?
Shocking eyewitness accounts of the "second wave" invasion on October 7—that of the Gazan civilians who entered people's homes, stole their possessions, and even switched their Netflix to Arabic and watched TV.
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@numerounochef
@robocarnage
He's not the target of insult
No one is denying that he'll face social sanctions or his bravery: the question is why a society that has governed over the world's longest occupation, which typically sentences dodgers in the scale of weeks to 6 months, & in which the armed forces are currently participating in
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Objectively one of the funniest events of the past few years, drowned by all the neo-nazi drivel encouraged on here
Bruh imma be real I don’t care about the NYC tunnels let people have fun???
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Israel is maybe the most (?) researched settler colony of all time, to the point that you have sturdy literature linking the psychology of colonialism to concrete transformations among settlers to the orange industry, to the adoption of the oud, to radio accents, etc. Won't stop
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colonization looks like it can explode into full-scale exterminism, driven either by an Israeli or WB-led overthrow of the PA. The Israeli hope of administratively excising the Gaza Strip, while maintaining its stranglehold, is now in disarray: they *can't* hold Gaza successfully
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The uniqueness of Zionism, in Patrick Wolfe's eyes, was that it was ideologically and demographically structured prior to invasion, which also foreclosed the possibility of a long-term transition towards assimilation of the native. Other settler regimes developed like a patchwork
Is there an equivalent descriptor to "zionist" for other supporters of settler colonial regimes?
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@lakeeater
a strong proletariat makes a smart bourgeoisie. a smart bourgeoisie makes a weak proletariat. a weak proletariat makes a stupid bourgeoisie. and a stupid bourgeoisie makes a strong proletariat (wallerstein: 'the bourgeoisie as concept and reality')
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This point is occasionally brought up by hybridity scholars and, in both cases, is basically evasive to the qualitative and quantitative divergence in extermination and ecocide
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and with the US on their side, I don't believe they'd shake their heads at a calamitious total war to engulf the wider region.
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Easy -- Israeli society is uniquely fucked, even compared to other dictatorial, right-wing, or authoritarian contexts. This is because anti-Palestinian violence isn't contingent on a single regime, party, or tendency. I also think Nazi (& current) Germany are pretty fucked
@Sain4847
@robocarnage
What’s the idea then, that Israelis by their nature are somehow uniquely evil? Do you think Germans are as well? How about Afghanis? The government is terrible and the people are led to believe lies, but they’re just people like anywhere else.
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*interrogation voice* so you were living in the bay at the time? let me play you a statement from a witness: "The last time I saw this face was July 4th, 1969. I am very sure that's the man who shot me." where were you on that night?
average vox writer:
@_TimBarker
I was in graduate school for fiction writing and suffering from severe insomnia at the time and did not follow that event closely
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They're banking on the Super Bowl blanking all coverage
They’re bombing Rafah while simultaneously playing a propaganda Super Bowl commercial.
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its "terminal" phase (purely based on self-perception): they have no idea what a tomorrow after the war may hold, so the thinking is to get "the job" or as many "jobs" done as possible, while they still can. This immediately looks like Lebanon; after said prohibition is violated,
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AOC continues to stake out a very interesting position on the Dem ideological spectrum
Votes against Israel aid, but joins statement — unlike any other Squad member — affirming Israel’s right to self-defense and signaling support for strengthening Iron Dome
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The other reason so many Muslim girls are bitter is that white guys like me can speak *much* better Arabic than they do. Orientalism is a powerful force
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