MyEdgyAlt

MyEdgyAlt @sh.itjust.works 7mo ago

BBC News and three leading news agencies have expressed desperate concern for journalists in Gaza, who they say are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families.

Did…did you read the first sentence in the article, or just the headline? Things are bad enough under Israel’s siege that news agencies are worried about journalists starving too.

MyEdgyAlt @sh.itjust.works 7mo ago

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MyEdgyAlt @sh.itjust.works 8mo ago

Israelis are expanding their West Bank land grabs and even terrorizing Christian Palestinian-American villages there.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2mknzn99eo

Separately, the US embassy in Jerusalem has said it condemns recent violence by Israeli settlers against the Christian town of Taybeh in the West Bank. Most of the land there is owned by Palestinian-Americans and, according to locals, some 300 residents are US passport holders. Attacks, including by masked men torching cars and attacking homes, have ramped up. On Monday, settlers set fields ablaze close to a fifth-Century church, leading to a call for international action from the town's priests.

The West Bank shows us that for Gaza, Hamas surrendering would at best change the speed of the Zionist genocide of Palestinians, but not put a stop to it.

MyEdgyAlt @sh.itjust.works 8mo ago

European colonizers doing European colonizer things, bringing western values to the savages.

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MyEdgyAlt @sh.itjust.works 9mo ago

They’re just perpetually the victims. They starve and slowly genocide a populace and they’re the victims when the populace stands up for itself. They bomb Iran and are the victim when Iran retaliates.

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MyEdgyAlt @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

https://chaos.social/@jiska/113447894119816217

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MyEdgyAlt @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

There is talk of a lot of things. Did she provide sources, or is it like Trump’s “people are saying…”?

You’re correct that the US has adopted a terrible definition of antisemitism that conflates the state of Israel and the actions of its genocidal apartheid government with Judaism.

Someone recently shared the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism with me, which I find to be a much more reasonable definition of antisemitism.

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MyEdgyAlt @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

For what it’s worth, Hezbollah has 13 of 128 seats in Lebanon’s parliament, and the CIA World Factbook says about a third of Lebanese are Christian, so I’m going to disagree with your characterization.

Hamas hasn’t held elections in nearly 20 years, so I’m going to disagree with you again. Israel’s accelerated genocide may have galvanized support for Hamas recently, but I haven’t looked into that.

MyEdgyAlt @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

What does this have to do with BBC? Their coverage on the Israeli hooligans had headlines that at a glance made the responses of locals sound anti-Semitic; they didn’t lead with the instigation.

MyEdgyAlt @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

Thank you for your balanced and measured response. What you said is completely correct. I oversimplified quite a bit in my comment.

MyEdgyAlt @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

No? What does this have to do with Jews? These were some nationalist hooligans destroying Palestinian flags and harassing Arab cab drivers. Stop trying to conflate Israelis and Jews.

https://jewishcurrents.org/recent-polls-of-us-jews-reflect-polarized-community

In the last few years, surveys have begun to suggest that a majority of American Jews do not support unconditional aid to Israel. Instead, they are willing to back conditions that military aid not be used to further Israel’s occupation of Palestinians. In fact, a substantial number of American Jews appear willing to go much further in criticizing Israel than community representatives like Daroff: A 2021 poll of Jewish voters by the Jewish Electorate Institute (JEI), for example, made waves when it found that a quarter of respondents agreed that Israel is an apartheid state.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/05/21/u-s-jews-have-widely-differing-views-on-israel/

40% say they don’t have a lot in common with Jews in Israel. 42% don’t feel even somewhat attached to the state of Israel. 55% say caring about Israel is not essential to what being Jewish means to them. 66% do not strongly oppose Boycott Divest Sanction.

Stop trying to get people to confuse Jews and Zionists. Huge numbers of Jews have perfectly functioning moral compasses (probably about as many as average Americans) and don’t need to be conflated with Israeli instigators.

Its possible these numbers have shifted recently, as Israel works hard to scare Americans into fleeing to join their settler colonialism project.

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MyEdgyAlt @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

You need to read some general media sources that aren’t part of your ethnocultural nationalist colonialist bubble.

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MyEdgyAlt @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

Yup, I pasted it in the threads I came across that had poor OP articles. I could have written something unique but… exactly the same message was intended, and I didn’t want to leave any of their biased, popular posts without a response.

MyEdgyAlt @sh.itjust.works 1y ago

Yeah, even NBC’s headline isn’t great. But at least it doesn’t open with bogus “antisemitism” wording.