Scott Patrick

Moderate Bolshevik. Geriatric millennial. Recovering academic with a PhD in political "science." OK ➡️ Abu Dhabi ➡️ DC ➡️ GA. ATL DSA & MUG member.

[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

President AOC’s first State of the Union address

[JJ @JJRPK74]

for the record, i don’t care that Nithya Raman has openly declared herself a capitalist. it’s good that she isn’t pretending to be a socialist. what i care about is that a socialist organization chapter is unprincipled enough to endorse a capitalist.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

On Wednesday, New York politician Brad Lander called Israel's occupation a crime. On Friday, he described the killing of two Israeli soldiers in the illegally occupied West Bank a "criminal act."

The two soldiers were killed at an illegal Israeli military checkpoint near Hebron, in territory where the International Court of Justice ruled in 2024 that Israel’s continued presence is unlawful.

Under international humanitarian law, military personnel are generally legitimate targets, and attacking them is not in itself a war crime, unlike deliberately targeting civilians.

The act of armed resistance is “criminal,” however, under Israeli military law, which Israel unlawfully imposes on Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank.

The UN General Assembly has repeatedly affirmed "the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples" against "foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle," most notably in Resolution 37/43 in 1982.

No civilians were reported killed in Friday's operation.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Palestinian families displaced as Israeli forces demolish Hebron homes, local officials say https://t.co/r8fIw0pv19

[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

@geesemagazine @harbingerofwoke

[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

The midterm shellacking of the Republicans hasn’t even happened yet, and Trump is already not accepting the results https://t.co/Kk7oL7OZfA

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

🇺🇦: Resist Occupation 🇵🇸: Gunmen Fire On

The difference is by design.

[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

@ajc The GOP brand is dog food.

Of course, you wouldn’t know that reading the Atlanta Journal-Corporation. The more you read, the less you know. https://t.co/9ZFITpW2N6

[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

@kalaelizabeth @DroidLiberator Meanwhile Star Wars The Old Republic will survive the heat death of the galaxy

[Gary Spedding @GarySpedding]

In a short while, Secretary of State for Education, @LucyMPowell will present the Sir David Bell review into antisemitism in schools and colleges.

This review is billed as the 'Independent review into antisemitism in schools and colleges'.

I've spoken to a number of individuals and organisations that submitted evidence to the Bell Review when the call for views from people with relevant lived experience, knowledge or expertise of antisemitism in schools and colleges went out earlier this year.

A number of them have gotten back to me to relay their horror and dismay that the review seems overly focussed on issues such as the presence of Palestine solidarity badges and other imagery in schools rather than the multitude of clear examples where Jewish students have been targeted with antisemitic abuse, discrimination and hatred.

It appears that the review is coming down hard on expressions of Palestine solidarity while being rather light on pupils who do Hitler salutes or make jokes about Jews and money.

Having done a little research I do also have some serious concerns as to the impartiality of this review and also the recommendation that schools adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism despite it not being possible to make this compulsory, nor is it legally actionable.

If we care about tackling antisemitism in society, ensuring we get to it where it manifests in our schools and among young people, then we need to put a stop to the weaponisation of antisemitism and its use for political football where Israel-Palestine is concerned.

This review is fundamentally biased, ideological, and linked to efforts to tie Jewish identity with support for Israel while suppressing pro-Palestine expression as 'antisemitic' and intimidating for Jews.

The reality of course is that young Jews in the UK are way more intimidated and frightened by their classmates doing Hitler salutes, making jokes about the Holocaust, doing gas sounds towards them because they're Jewish, being physically assaulted for being Jewish, being bullied and isolated for being Jewish, being sexually assaulted (reports of kids demanding to see the circumcised penis of a Jewish school child in year 8), and all the other antisemitic shit that is happening in our schools.

I'm also reminded of what we learned from the documentary film @IsraelismFilm about the efforts to indoctrinate young Jews into seeing Israel as integral to their identity as Jews, that when Israel is criticised they are being personally attacked as Jews, and that they can only see themselves as Jewish if they support and love Israel.

Anyway, below are some very serious issues relating to Sir David Bell, his lack of impartiality, and the failure to declare vested interests of himself and a number of those on the reference group:

- David Bell's role as a permanent secretary at the department of education was not disclosed as a conflict of interest.

- David Bell is named on the national council of the 'National Study Group', an educational charity, that in its mission statement says that its goal is to "initiate or expand active links and research collaboration between academics, specialists and centres-of-excellence in the UK and their counterparts in Israel." The ASG is "primarily a UK-Israel operation" and rather worryingly the "only issue on which ASG has firm policy is opposition to BDS. The Charity is totally committed to the universality of knowledge and rejects any disruption to cross-national co-operation."

- The ASG, of which Sir David Bell is named as a member of national council, provides educational talks about Israel to schools.

- Executive director of the ASG, John D.A. Levy, is on the advisory board of Academic Friends of Israel and a separate charity, the friends of Israel educational foundation.

- The Friends of Israel Educational Foundation carries out hundreds of school talks in the UK.

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[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

For Israel, collective punishment is a matter of policy.

It’s also strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law and is considered a war crime.

Every crime Israel commits gives rise to the next generation of freedom fighters

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚡️ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to demolish an entire Hebron neighborhood, expel its residents and build "more and more settlements" after two Israeli soldiers were killed in a shooting near the illegally occupied West Bank city on Friday.

Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a junction outside Hebron, killing a staff sergeant and a sergeant, before Israeli forces killed them. Palestinian media identified them as Hamouda Jaaba and Firas Jaaba, both 27, from Hebron. Netanyahu blamed Hamas but offered no evidence beyond ammunition the army said it found in their car.

"Our first step will be to demolish this site and completely transform it," Netanyahu said, adding Israel is "building and arranging over 100 new settlements." Israeli forces sealed off Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank, and arrested dozens as Netanyahu ordered preparations for a full closure of the entire West Bank – applying to Palestinians only, with Israeli roads staying open to settlers.

The news comes just five days before Israel's elections, with Netanyahu trailing in the polls.

[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

@wmata @Dulles_Airport Is that why WMATA service is back to 90s levels too?

[aimée 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @sapphyreblayze]

Yeah, imagine if a foreign imperial power occupied 20% of Ireland. That would be crazy.

[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

By 2018, MBZ had also put roughly $1 billion for Kushner into a second account at Israel’s Central Bank—at Benjamin Netanyahu’s urging. Unlike the political slush fund, Kushner’s activity in this account indicated that it was for his personal use. https://t.co/SskMCQTHeD

[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

the bird reich

[Atlanta Falcons @AtlantaFalcons]

New PFP 👀

[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

MAGAts: “But the Louise Lucas investigation started under Biden!”

Yeah, and the Biden DOJ brought no charges. Just like DHS found nothing when they investigated Omar the first time.

This is meant to distract from GOP midterm poll numbers.

[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

@LouisTheInterim @pkgandakin @Phormio_Lake Agreed, Erfurt isn't the only template. But every form, minimum-maximum or transitional, assumes a party that adopts the program and is bound by it. That's the formal piece WDM lacks. Settle that first, then argue Erfurt vs. 1938.

[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

Electeds and wannabe electeds ditching the “free Palestine” plank is bad enough. Unelected personalities assuring the business press that socialism is market-friendly, when our program calls for nationalizing key industries, is just as frustrating and self-defeating.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

NEW ODD LOTS:

Jacobin founder @sunraysunray tells me and @tracyalloway that after the socialists take over, we don’t have to worry. Markets will still have a major role to play in the economy https://t.co/iOzzuE0h28

[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

@CjChaosKing0

[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

@pkgandakin @Phormio_Lake Maybe, but Gramsci isn't on the other side. The Modern Prince ties intellectual and moral reform to a program of economic reform, which he calls its concrete form. Hegemony needs something to cohere around. Where the camps split is sequence: consent first, or the program first.

[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

@pkgandakin @Phormio_Lake Agreed, so the question is whether WDM is a program anyone can lock into. SPD membership meant professing the program's principles. WDM binds endorsed candidates only "to the best of their ability" and members not at all. There's nothing to lock into yet.

[Scott Patrick @thirdintl]

@Phormio_Lake @pkgandakin You could reply to me instead of j3rking each other off