Semantics & language around bigotry absolutely matters. Language is used to gaslight & as dogwhistles to signal to likeminded people or dehumanize. There is no excuse for saying “zios” instead of “Zionists” once you know “zios” is a slur coined by David Duke
@AsaWinstanley@Tracking_Power@NaamodUK For the movement to succeed, it will need different groups working within different communities - starting fights like this will not get us anywhere.
I’m writing a book on how antisemitism became a battleground. One of the most damaging things, in the fight against antisemitism, is the outright misuse and abuse of the term
I am off X for the weekend, spending it with loved ones, but chiming in on Gaza is a moral obligation. The fact that IDF soldiers opened fire on civilians - even if some of the deaths were caused by a stampede around aid trucks, as the IDF claims - is a crime and a travesty.
Criminals should be punished. Israelis should be ashamed. The Israeli government, who gave the IDF no clear strategy for the war’s goals, the humanitarian efforts and the day after - should have resigned months ago.
My heart is with the innocent victims, with the hostages and their families.
Children are starving in Gaza. Instead of opening up the borders and allowing humanitarian aid to come in, Israeli soldiers are shooting people who are desperately trying to get food off of trucks. This must stop. The U.S. cannot continue funding the Netanyahu war machine.
Some facts:
-There are now more IDF forces in West Bank than in Gaza.
-More Israeli hostages in Gaza have been killed (indirectly or directly) by Israel than have been saved.
-Israel police used more force against protesters for a hostage deal than those blocking aid to Gaza
.@NaamodUK, organisation of British Jews against apartheid and occupation, held a rally for Rafah today. They held up pictures of those murdered in the past few months, including my dear brother, Mahmoud.
Thank you!
Beautiful resistance this afternoon in Soho Sq. London. @NaamodUK bringing together 300 Jews of all ages to rally for Rafah, demand the return of hostages and an immediate ceasefire. Jewish and Palestinian speakers in true solidarity calling for justice as well as peace. 👏💪✡️
In my design process, one of the things I think about is how the things I create can inform the kinds of worlds and internets I hope to see in the future.
A good example is the “Low Carbon” mode on https://t.co/aH5bey5IdS:
Non-Fungible Plants – https://t.co/Q17seWqKy6 / @cyrusclarke
→ https://t.co/GvJvc9MYAc
Living plants with data encoded in their DNA + growing a community of ‘gardeners’ to drive awareness of ‘Data Warming’.
Here is a video showing the police not allowing Na’amodniks to join the march, citing the @CST_UK and the march organisers as the reason.
A second video to follow in tweet below.
This mentality is essentially the QAnon of the Jewish community. A steady stream of misinformation, fed by an alternative media ecosystem awash with ‘alternative facts’, seals adherents into a bubble of paranoid grievance & victimhood— all for the benefit of a nationalist project
Stop dismissing statements about ethnic cleansing as fringe or not indicative of Israeli policy. They are telling us they are going to settle Gaza. Why are you ignoring them?
Two questions I'd love never to hear again: "The Arabs have 20 countries. Why can't the Palestinians go there?" For the same reason that most Chileans want to stay in Chile and not move to Mexico or Argentina. It's the place they love, most of them were born there, and they have as much of a right to live there as anyone else.
And the parallel question: "Why can't the Jews go back to Europe?" First, most Israelis today are descended from Jews that came from Morocco, Iraq, Yemen, and other North African and Middle Eastern countries. And second, same answer: most were born there and have as much of a right to live there as anyone else.
Few things are more deluded, damaging, or dangerous than talking of "another Nakba," or dreaming that "they will leave like the French left Algeria." No. Neither will happen. We are fated to somehow share this place no matter what.
We don’t need to deny the evidence & extent of Hamas's atrocities on 10/7—even with credible reports that some may have been killed by Israeli forces—in order to insist that there is no military solution & what’s happening in Gaza isn’t justified. Denialism doesn’t help the cause
If you see thousands of children as collateral damage your morality is deeply fucked. There’s no excuse. Figure out another way to get your enemy and accomplish your goals. You cannot value an Israeli life 10x more than a Palestinian life