When a Jewish settler says, “We are Jews. This is Jewish land,” while evicting a Palestinian family, and the victim says, “I hate you Jews,” the burden of this antisemitism lies with the Jewish settler who weaponized religious identity for dispossession.
It’s astounding how acts of anti-Palestinian hate—home theft, land grabs, military raids—are spun to portray Jewish settlers as victims. “The Palestinians hate us. They want to kill us Jews,” they cry—ignoring that it was they who came to destroy Palestinian lives in the name of their own identity.
@lou_twin@EmmaVigeland Man if 'cheering on death makes you guilty and deserving of death yourself' is your stance, I have terrible news for you about a favorite Israeli pastime.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem poll:
-64% of Israelis say there's "no need" for more reporting on Gaza's suffering
-64% agree that "there are no innocent people in Gaza"
-69% say CNN & BBC are biased in favor of Palestinians
-50% say Fox News is biased in favor of Palestinians
@jonathanchait Although I'd agree generally that liberalism is getting somewhat of a bad rap, it's important to acknowledge vis-a-vis Israel that the schism of the Dems was all on the liberals for betraying the values of liberalism to support Israel, so it's weird to blame 'the Left' for it.
@hoffman_bruce Anyway the IDF drone striked a doctor and his 10 children, killing 9 of them, which as one might notice is worse than only wounding 8 adults. Bruce does not consider this terrorism though, despite Israeli politicians sounding just as cruel as Sinwar, because bombs are impersonal.
@Timcast Thanks for the input, Tim 'I was literally a paid Russian agent' Pool, I'm sure you continue to be a voice for genuine interest in America's future.
@jkerr190@jvgraz 'I value freedom' and 'those people don't deserve freedom because of who they are' means you don't actually value freedom, you're just an ethnic supremacist, no better than Hamas.
New Penn State poll confirms Jewish Israeli society is comprehensively fascist, completely unredeemable, and a dire threat to humanity:
-82% support the forced expulsion of residents of Gaza
-56% support the forced expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel
-47% believe the Israeli army should “act like the biblical Israelites under Joshua in Jericho—killing all inhabitants of a conquered city"
-65% “believe in a modern-day incarnation of Amalek, a biblical enemy of the Jews”
-93% of those who believe in "Amalek" believe the biblical command to “erase Amalek” still applies today
-69% of secular Israelis support expelling Gaza’s population, and 31% support mimicking the biblical destruction of Jericho
-Just 9% of men under 40 oppose all genocide scenarios for Palestinians
They all have Israeli passports, but they're not Jewish, so they're having their entire communities demolished. There are more house demolitions in the Naqab every year than in the West Bank.
Israel is a state of ethnic supremacy.
@Jesse_Leg@TheAtlantic@reihan The problem is the selectivity of these breathless pieces. Yes, sure, these murders were an act of political terrorism, but where is this energy when imams and Palestinian children are murdered in the US? No thoughts on the constant 'death to Arabs' sloganeering from Zionists?
@jonathanchait It's very weird to hold up Torres as an winsome Abundance Lib when some of the positions you point out he's heterodox with the left flank with are things that are actually unpopular with both his own base and the electorate abroad.
This sort of capture is not good, actually.
@QuecheeGirl@TheAtlantic@julieebeck And starving children helps how...? If you're gonna just appeal to the idea that terrorizing children will encourage Hamas to surrender, you're just ipso-facto justifying terror conceptually. If Gazan children are valid subjects for coercion, why not Israeli children, too?
@wafflenbaitshop@TheAtlantic@julieebeck They have more guns than the citizenry, so they seize what they can. Consequently, Israel's decision to starve the strip is indefensible even from a military standpoint, since it encourages folks to sign up for food security and it gives Hamas more control over critical resources
@nikkibyrd0910@TheRealMr_Chaos@CocoaFox023 Because movies are political! The economy is political! CPS, the branch of the government, IS political! How on earth do you people not understand this!?
The Lilo and Stitch remake ends up sanitizing the critique of American colonialism though organisations like CPS
"They're nice in the movie though so it's fine" is not valid. It is deliberate that they removed that element from the film to be safe slop