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Why I resigned as chairman of Amnesty Israel (forward.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

... It’s because, as Palestinian activists and scholars Haneen Maikey and Lana Tatour have pointed out, a common pattern in progressive Israeli spaces is that Palestinians can provide labor, translation, lived experience and trauma to feed the analysis of Israeli Jews, but cannot be equal partners who get to do the analysis side by side and set the agenda together.

TIL isrealis are more like white Americans than I realized

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Many of them literally are white Americans. Bibi was raised in the US as much as in Israel, and Ashkenazi Jews are genetically more European than anything else.

WaPo about a year ago: U.S. readies plans for mass evacuations if Gaza war escalates

Officials said that the more than 600,000 Americans living in Israel and Lebanon are of particular concern, but they stressed that an operation of such magnitude is a worst-case scenario

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

That probably explains why they're doing native American style slow genocide.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Benjamin Mileikowski rebranded harder than HTS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Isrealis ... white Americans

same-picture