Whatever happens tomorrow, never forget that this doggedly positive and hopeful campaign—in every way a fight for basic dignity and joyful celebration of democratic pluralism—was relentlessly denounced by political and media elites as something sinister, dangerous, and violent.
Funny, when boilerplate pro gun rhetoric is recontextualized in leftwing political demands how much pearl clutching it solicits. When the tyranny in question is moderately higher taxes and integrated schools we yawn, when it’s workers rights it’s presented as per se a scandal
I was once on a panel where I pointed out that a former Israeli official among the audience was personally directly responsible for the killing of my father
The elitists in the room saw ME as the “extremist” for merely pointing this out & not the mass murderer on the loose
Those charlatans are more mad about us posting pictures of our murdered children than with the literal murder of our children, because they wanna keep schmoozing with the murderers!
The reason Van Jones can get up, use “dead Gaza babies” so crassly, toss in a joke about Diddy mid-sentence, and have an audience erupt in laughter - without hesitation for either context or content - is because of the depth and breadth of dehumanization that’s been permitted toward Palestinians (including by those who call themselves “allies”). There is no America in which “dead Jewish babies” could ever be invoked in such a vulgar way on such a platform.
So long as Palestinians are denied full humanity - which includes the right to the language of their liberation without deference to the “feelings” of their oppressors; the right to resist extermination; the right to speak for themselves; and the right to have their humanity disentangled from their oppressors’ “security” - this casual, crass dehumanization will persist.
This is fascism.
Where is the Free Speech Brigade? The Intellectual Dark Web? The Free Press? All the folks who pretended to care about free speech when it was a rando student on campus but not when it's masked state agents chasing a man down for a comment they didn't like.
the fact Hitler literally explains and wrote in his book that he called the party socialist and used Red as the colour to confuse people to come to meetings and not realise it was a far Right party, but 80 years later, you’re stupid enough to fall for it, really is something
A Jewish professor of Holocaust Studies may leave Columbia because the texts she always used include the Jewish philosopher Hannah Arentd, who compared Zionists to Nazis and said Zionism is racist: now banned ideas under the IHRA hate speech code Trump forced on universities.👇
Well-fed "Jewish spectators seemingly enjoying themselves at a soccer game in the Theresienstadt ghetto" -- quote from US Holocaust Museum on this photo, illustrating how Nazis used selective images for Red Cross visits at concentration camps during WW2.
Israel had been occupying Gaza for 27 years by the time of this footage; Hamas was barely seven years old. Its fighters probably had no more a few dozen guns between them.
Palestinians will be forced into a concentration camp and those who refuse will be called “militants” to excuse their slaughter.
The “final operational plan” is a plan for ethnic cleansing.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “We must continue to push for a complete arms embargo of all weapons to the Israeli government.
No matter what weapons, I don’t care if it’s ‘offensive’ or ‘defensive.’
It’s past time that my colleagues stop making excuses.