[-] [email protected] 89 points 3 weeks ago

This ordinary guy basically had the entire national press roll up on his doorstep, in the middle of his ordinary life, just after discovering that his young neighbor who he didn't know that well had shot two people in DC and made international news as well as setting off a global Israeli-pushed political firestorm. And his message is one of empathy, it clearly places the genocide on Israel's shoulders, highlights his country's complicity, and keeps message discipline without getting drawn into media spin or distraction.

It really demonstrates how all these lib and 'left' politicians and pundits really aren't worth a damn that they can't manage this shit.

[-] [email protected] 93 points 1 month ago

Israel has used drones to attack a Gaza humanitarian aid flotilla in International waters off the coast of Malta.

UPDATE from Thiago Ávila, coordinator of the Freedom Flotilla still in Malta:

We had another mission 15 years ago that was attacked, and 10 of our participants were killed in this mission of the Mavi Marmara. And right now we just suffered another attack, where two drones attacked our boat and put our boat on fire and created a big hole on our boat. There was a distress signal that was sent to all neighboring countries, to all the vessels nearby.

And until very early in the morning, no one had responded to this. This happened now six hours ago. And now that we finally — the fire was put down, and finally, the drones that attacked the boat are out of the region.

But we are very concerned for our participants. This is part of a humanitarian mission that was carrying food and medical aid to Gaza, because Gaza has now been for 58 days under total blockade — that not a single bag of flour, not a single bottle of water has entered Gaza for 58 days under a state of famine in the Gaza Strip.

So we were trying to break the siege and create a people's humanitarian corridor, with people from over 20 different countries and carrying all the aid we could carry. We had members of parliament, we had actors, we had doctors, we had news outlets, we had influencers, we had grassroots solidarity movement activists as well for Palestine.

And we were doing our best. This was a confidential mission. Because they've been attempting bureaucratic warfare on us, we were not disclosing the information until then that we were going, because they've been trying to hinder us. We were supposed to be on the boat three days ago now, and we've been hindered. And now, a few hours before we depart, we were attacked.

And so we are due to share this information, to contact local politicians, to contact everyone you can, so that the Maltese government organize a proper rescue operation, which is not ongoing until now, and it's been many, many hours. We don't want to antagonize this government.

We actually think this government needs to be an ally on a rescue mission, but we really need to denounce the war crime that happened because the boat was 13 nautical miles from Maltese territory, so it's in international waters, but it's nearby Malta, and we need people to denounce this attack, this war crime that just happened against a peaceful humanitarian mission to Gaza. And we need people to put the spotlight as well on the total blockade that Gaza has been suffering for 58 days.

We only went to the boat because we knew there was no other choice to open a humanitarian corridor, so the people of the world were willing to open it.

And we were attacked. So we were urged for your help, and Nicole here is part of our delegation, has been doing an amazing, amazing job, and we count on you to follow up with her, because we really need you right now, and especially the people, the Palestinian people in Gaza need you more than ever.

From elsewhere on Twitter:

We spoke with Jasmine, one of the organizers of the Freedom Flotilla.

She reports that the 30 people aboard the ship are afraid to board lifeboats—fearing Israel will strike them again once exposed. As of now, there are no confirmed injuries, but communication with the ship has been lost.

Jasmine is currently organizing an independent operation with others to reach the Freedom Flotilla after 7 hours without any response to the ship’s SOS. Authorities, embassies, and officials have remained silent.

The ship is sinking in international waters.

Despite multiple calls to embassies, media, and an SOS call and beacon no countries responded for over 6 hours until a Cypriot vessel picked up the SOS call and sent help.

I don't have the national makeup of activists on board for obvious reasons, but if any of them were British then it's highly likely that the British government has actively assisted in the illegal drone striking of one of its own citizens since they provide radio surveillance of that area, as well as surveillance flights and targeting for Israeli drones from RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus.

History is repeating itself again, as a reminder; in 2010 Israeli military boarded and stormed a previous Gaza humanitarian flotilla and executed at least 10 activists, all unarmed, some at point blank range, including UK and US citizens.

[-] [email protected] 90 points 2 months ago

I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think these people are alive. They were never going to let a Senator from the opposition in for a photo-op but giving zero proof of life feels less like a middle finger and more like they can't. kiryu-pain

[-] [email protected] 95 points 7 months ago

Continuing their state-protected tour of violence, dozens of Israeli fans beat a french fan in the stands of the France v Israel match the other night. Some media has framed it as 'booing and clashes' but more and more videos from the game have been appearing since then.

Police and security did little to nothing to stop the violence as fans further down the stands looked on helplessly, but arrested French fans trying to get others out of the mob of Israeli hooligans. After the match an Israeli fan in an IDF tee shirt was interviewed by the French media grinning and saying the level of security was "wonderful, magnificent, maybe too much even" before pointing out that they had a "small incident in Block K" which they dealt with "directly". There's also video of French fans showing police and security, with video evidence on their phones, that the Israel fans were the aggressors. Of course they were ignored.

Macron and other French ministers were at the match to "show their support for fighting anti-semitism" after Amsterdam. They didn't mention or condemn the Israeli violence against French fans afterward from what I can see.

When the leaders of European states repeatedly and reflexively defend Israeli violence against and above their own citizens as victims - in countries that are already sliding ever-rightward - they're pouring fuel on the kindling of actual antisemitism. It's going to end very badly indeed.

[-] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

France has been handing out fines for people shopping with watermelon pins on lately. Tweet france-cool

[-] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago

Not surprising, but a revealing moment of police culture regarding the protests here.

For those that can't see the Twitter video...

Police are violently arresting protestors on the bridge. Batons out. Often five or sex different officers tackling individuals, kneeling on them, getting licks in.

One officer in a riot helmet and drawn baton is stood to one side, watching, but not wanting to get stuck in with the other five or six officers with a protester already on the ground.

A much larger superior comes over to him aggressively, getting in his face, and yells *"Let's go! Let's go! You're the police! Let's go! Don't be a fucking traitor!"

Not only is this very clearly gang shit, but the idea that he could be a 'traitor' clearly shows that the police view this as a war against the protesters.

Again, this won't be surprising to anyone. But it's laid out so perfectly in this five seconds or so of footage.

[-] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago

As well as attackers who served in the IOF, it seems there was more Israeli involvement in the attacks on UCLA protesters.

[-] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago

The Guardian has been editing out mentions of Israel in its articles without even telling the authors in question that edits were made. It was highlighted this morning by author Noreen Masud, but other authors have chimed in to say they've gone back and checked and it's been done to their articles too.

Twitter thread here and some excerpts posted below:

I wrote about what I’d been reading, for the @guardian. Now: editing’s important. I’m happy to be edited and I welcome it. But isn’t it funny how it’s always the same word that gets edited out?

I did not approve these edits and I condemn the moral cowardice behind them. Name the hand behind the deaths of 15,000 children. It is Israeli violence, funded and supported by the US and the UK.

I am so so sickened by the cowardice of our media

UPDATE. No one has been in touch with me

Despite the thread blowing up and her contacting the Guardian they were ignored until, according to an email screenshot, her publisher intervened with the Guardian.

the ‘lost’ word has mysteriously been found

Another author who was asked by the Guardian to write about the conflict then chimes in with others with another particular egregious example:

(2nd Author) I noticed a similarly shocking omission in a piece I’ve just read about the horrors unfolding in Rafah.

My god - am I right in thinking that Israel is not mentioned there even once in a whole article about its violence towards Gaza’s children?

(2nd Author) Not once

Speechless

[-] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago

@[email protected] ... I abandoned an old account because Hexbear bullies followed me around and downvoted everything. Come to think of it, I haven’t posted a single thing since then, and I had a bunch of posts with hundreds of votes.

hexbear-specter michael-laugh Spooky Hexbear users down vote all my posts, despite having no ability to down vote, even in their own sub. Woooooooooooooooo...

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One of the hardest tunes of 2020. Because it's nothing but canny to real people. An alternative anthem in early 2020.

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A pre-Covid tune about the miserable nature of working for the British state, wirtreb in early 2020 and it's only gotten my funding perfect. Whether you like alt-folk, prog-metal or really anything else you should do the Richard Dawson thing.

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Honest words are the hardest to pronounce They stick in your throat and refuse to leave your mouth I lost sense of myself whilst hiding from the truth Lost fifteen years of my life whilst hiding love from you

"Love is a fickle thing", that's what you said to me "You know you could be happy if you wanted to be" Hand-me-down love letters from those I've loved before I keep them hidden, those words mean nothing to me anymore

Everybody's heart breaks in the same way The beginning and the end are one and the same You don't have love if you're not scared to lose it We keep these secrets until they're dead and faded away

I had to hide it from you You wouldn't expect it from me I couldn't give it to you If you'd asked me I had to hide it from you You wouldn't expect it from me I couldn't give it to you If you'd asked me

Everybody's heart breaks in the same way The beginning and the end are one and the same You don't have love if you're not scared to lose it We keep these secrets until they're dead and faded away You might also like Death Goals in Cursive Death Goals Loveless Death Goals Who The Fuck Is Sarah Tonin? Death Goals For what it's worth I'm sorry I kept it from you I was just so scared Of accepting my own truth

Our love for each other Is buried in those woods (x...)

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(Drums and badassery)

There's no love lost We hate your guts and you hate ours back We're not valid, we're not real But we have everything you lack

You're all pigs, ignorant, feral It's the year of the guillotine And these old gods are looking frail

You can't erase You can't erase our existence (x)

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'Jews are predisposed to calling for genocide and it's part of our rich but often misunderstood quirky cultural heritage, but we can't actually do it, even when we are, because.... reasons' is one one hell of a take from a 'left' history professor and author:

As the author of ‘Jews and Words’, a book that celebrates the Jewish culture of debate and textuality, I must spell out something that the book didn’t mention, a negative aspect of our talkative legacy.

You may not like it, but here it is.

This morning’s proceedings in The Hague focus on genocidical talk in the Israeli public sphere. There are dozens of examples: ministers, Knesset members, influencers. Even the manipulative Netanyahu mentioned Amalek, the ancient people that the Bible singled out for eradication. Never mind that great rabbis have determined long ago that Amalek is obsolete, and the biblical verdict does not apply to any existing nation.

What stands on trial today is the ancient Jewish habit of speaking to each other as if no one else is listening. The Jewish habit of making extreme statements irresponsibly, unthoughtfully, without expecting any payback.

For so many centuries we have exercised a wild freedom of speech among ourselves, in our own languages, relying on our own argumentative balance mechanism: extremism and moderation may clash, and moderation usually triumphs. The House of Shammai is legitimate, but the House of Hillel, the moderates, usually wins. Israeli verbal culture inherited this freedom. But Israel is also a liberal democracy and member of the global community. Most of the loudmouths crying Genocide and Amalek are not aware of the profound dissonance, the huge damage, the justified outrage. Some don’t care.

Only a small minority wants actual genocide in Gaza and are morally crippled enough to carry it through: the extreme national-religious right. The fact that Netanyahu allowed these thugs into his government and echoes their discourse is an eternal blot on Jewish history.

Our disputative, wordy culture deserves to be celebrated, but it must denounce its dangerous outcrop of inciters to blind violence. Their Amalekite speech has become too viable to bear. Too doable.

No, Israel is not conducting genocide. But its ongoing rant about “flattening Gaza” is no longer a quaint side effect of our argumentative heritage.

It is a crime, a travesty and a harrowing blow to the best of Jewish traditions.

Later, from her responses:

This horrific, dirty, ugly war is not genocide. If that was our intention, Gaza would cease to exist on 8/10 and 500 of our soldiers would still be alive.

Ah yes, genocide has to be the instantaneous Thanos-like removal of a population just like it was in Germany during the... errrr.... monke-beepboop

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In news that won't surprise people paying attention at the time but has finally been 'noticed' by news reporting (the way British media usually operates), the funds for Starmer's leadership election including illegal donations, breaches of electoral law, and a shady slush fund from shady interests.

I linked the Novara article as the Sunday Times original is behind a paywall, plus there's some other links for context.

What's interesting to me is why this is reaching the surface of the British media now. The press hedging it's bets in case the dissent in the Tory party does take down Rishi? Plausible deniability as they grow uncomfortable with Labour's massive polling lead? A warning shot for some perceive recent sleight?

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Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture, has a strange reaction to a student at a 'fireside chat' recruitment even standing up and saying her name. She's then asked about Accenture's investments in fossil fuels and arms companies supporting Israel. But the questionnaire how scared and paranoid are these people in general? What are they being told by advisors and private security?

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The BBC ran a story about a Muslim family who upped sticks from the city and bought a farm in rural Wales, and how they're encouraging more diverse people from cities to enjoy the outdoors. You can read it here.

The headline now reads Muslim farmer wants more diverse rural visitors. But it didn't when they posted it as evidenced by the Tweet linked in this post, as they can't change that.

For anyone who can't follow the Twitter link (Nitter couldn't find it even with a link, sorry) the original headline was this:

Muslim farmer wants more ethnicity in rural Wales

A headline that very deliberately baited a massive number of racists who predictably used it to tout great replacement theory.

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David Mencer, who was the director of Labour Friends of Isreal before recently moving there, had an extremely normal one when invited on to discuss the growing calls for Labour (and others) to back a genuine ceasefire.

Seriously, it has to be seen to be believed; from his total lack of self-control, absurd rhetoric, and the worst case of long-Corbyn derrangement sysndrome I've ever seen.

Keep in mind that TalkTV is an explicitly right-wing Rupert Murdoch funded news channel here and the host feels compelled to warn, repudiate, lower and eventually cut Mercer's mic in favour of a left-wing Labour activist with a pro-Palestine view.

(Posted here as it seemed most fitting, if it shouldn't be then just let me know - edited with Nitter link)

[-] [email protected] 96 points 2 years ago

David Katz is one of the best, and most accessible, especially on how the Baltic states have deliberately curated and used it to whitewash their own Nazi pasts and current far-right - mostly because he spent about 25 years living and researching it there (he now lives and teaches in Lithuania).

This a the useful overview article that I posted the other day.

He also collaborated with a number of other academics and historians to create the DefendingHistory website. Here's their archive on double genocide related stuff. There's some background links at the top, then papers by different authors, then related news articles etc.

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George Grosz was a fascinating and viceral painter, deeply scarred and influenced by his experience serving in the first world war, before he was discharged and left with psychiatric problems and a serious drinking problem. Many of his paintings from that period deal explictly with the horrors of war and the human cost juxtaposed against societal conflict.

His later work saw him fined by the German government and some of his collections ordered destroyed as they became more satrical and focused upon what he saw as the hypocracy of those that advocate for such violence - things like preachers vomiting grenades and Jesus being forced into conscription.

He also went to Russia in the 1920s, where he was initially detained as a spy, but released when proven not to be and even met Lenin. He lived in the US for most of his life after the '30s but eventually returned to Berlin, where he died falling down the stairs one night drunk.

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I'm so so late to this but thanks to a comrade IRL this is now my new go to noisecore / hardcore noise. So sonically varied and badass. If you like it from a youtube link you can buy it and support them here.

We love our trans comrades and we love when they're NOISEY AS FUCK. cat-trans meow-tableflip

[-] [email protected] 94 points 2 years ago

Liberalism: acceptable to many, desirable to few.

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