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[Nissan al gabe @ismaellini]

We’re living in a nightmare scenario, a group of people from around the world that doesn’t look like us at all, kill our children, destroy our homes and want to skin our faces and wear as a mask because they want to be us to bad

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@Travis_LFGM @offbeatorbit i find it interesting how he goes out of his way to leave out the rest of the initialism.

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@thelifeofyahya2 @minjokyoexit its not socialism oh my goddddd

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@nuni77307854 @AlanRMacLeod “to gain points towards their own country,” as if it’s a silly thing that the US just does instead of genuine and cruel imperialism that has real, tangible effects on North Koreans.

[🔎Al🔍 @SweatieAngle]

I really admire mothers, because if my kid were like this I would not be able to love or even tolerate him at all.

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@SpearsSpiral @yuberguber @XiWellWisher @fullslack_ still a Zionist, still not socialism

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@SpearsSpiral @yuberguber @XiWellWisher @fullslack_ “meaningless virtue-signalling” and it’s socialism getting co-opted by the liberal establishment, keeping on a Zionist to run her own fascist militia (including against leftist activism), and condemning actual, real-life Palestinians and their allies to appease Zionists.

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@SpearsSpiral @yuberguber @XiWellWisher @fullslack_ -kept on NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch an overt Zionist who has ties to Netanyahu
-often consorts with politicians like Obama, Sanders, and Landers who are arguably more overt liberal Zionists
-condemned Palestinian resistance and those who express support for it

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@LilyArtemisTO @SkyeJetNY so campists? the reverse is redundant lol

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@freebird_080 @fujobritta Moose Jaw likely comes from the Plains Cree name for the area, Medicine Hat from Blackfoot mythology, and the last one—that’s just stupid.

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@rayrekt20xx @tippity the way he literally pulled an Obama on us😭 it’s horrible, but you kinda have to laugh

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

Another thing I forgot to add in regards to Zionists pressuring these politicians from the right is that these Zionists are often rewarded for it. Again, the issue here being that Palestinians pressuring politicians are told we’re being divisive.

But If politicians respond to pressure, why is only one side expected to apply it? A movement that is allowed to make demands accumulates power. A movement that is told to stay quiet surrenders it.

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

The U.S. left really does not understand the damage it is doing to the Palestinian liberation struggle.

No serious Palestinian engaged in the struggle for liberation, whether in Palestine or in exile, would ever condemn or denounce the right of Palestinians to resist occupation, apartheid, and genocide by any means necessary.

Yet we are increasingly told that people who do exactly that are part of the movement, and that anyone who challenges them is divisive, unreasonable, or an “op.”

What this actually does is place Palestinians who remain committed to our political principles in the crosshairs of everyone: Zionists, the right wing, the state, and now even sectors of the left. It marginalizes Palestinians, portrays us as extremists for upholding positions that have always been central to our national liberation struggle, and pressures us to abandon our own political consensus in order to accommodate American political sensibilities.

The result is the isolation of Palestinians from our own movement.

And beyond being wrong, it simply does not work. Palestinians have always been told to mute criticism, soften demands, and overlook real political differences with elected officials because doing otherwise might hurt their chances of winning. We are told they secretly agree with us, that they just cannot say it publicly yet, and that once they gain power things will be different.

But the opposite keeps happening. Politicians benefit from the energy and legitimacy of the Palestine movement, then distance themselves from it once they are in office. Palestinians are expected to accept that distance, accept new compromises, and accept the constant narrowing of our politics, all in the name of pragmatism.

Meanwhile, Zionists are free to pressure those same politicians from the right without restraint, while Palestinians are told that applying pressure from our own political position is unacceptable.

If our support is always conditional on staying quiet, abandoning our principles, and never criticizing elected officials, then what is being asked of us is political obedience, and that has never advanced Palestinian liberation.

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@LuticZ @notronmexicuh are you genuinely trying to make the argument that Ms. Rachel, a left-leaning liberal is farther left than a communist? i don’t entirely agree with him on Ms. Rachel (i think there’s more nuance), but he’s not wrong to say that he’s “punching” rightwards.

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@emj_inc @LateefSaka do you believe i’m denying the existence of anti-Black racism among non-Black Arabs? because that’s not remotely what i’m saying.

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@emj_inc @LateefSaka the Black person being the then-President of the United States of America who had Gaddafi—who’s death was quite literally the only reason the slave trade returned to Libya—killed.

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@franzkaftah i mean they literally did just that

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@zeglian @gracecamille_ with Zionists, it inevitably returns back to raping and normalizing sexual violence against Palestinians

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@BestGirlEmmi @polyfraggrenade i genuinely never understand this take. i thought it was a great movie artistically, and especially as an allegory for climate change😭

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@LaocoonsJournal @CantEverDie yes, and that is good,