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Keeponstalin @ Keeponstalin @lemmy.world
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killing and/or ostracizing everyone on it who isn't a
JewIsraeli
Israel kills people, both Palestinian and Lebanese, regardless of whether their religion is Muslim, Christian, or Jewish
Israel does not care about the safety of Jewish people. Their constant deflection about how their military actions are in the name of protecting Jewish people, and the intentional conflation of anti-zionism and antisemitism, has only increased genuine antisemitism at the expense of Jewish people worldwide
Settlements and Settler Violence are fully backed by Israel, even when branded as illegal by the State. Settlers move in and steal land, IDF moves in to 'defend' the Settlers from the people who's land is being stolen.
Why would I love imperialism and war crimes responsible for the deaths of millions?
SodaStream is still subject to boycott by the global, Palestinian-led BDS movement for Palestinian rights. Its new factory is actively complicit in Israel's policy of displacing the indigenous Bedouin-Palestinian citizens of Israel in the Naqab (Negev). SodaStream's mistreatment of and discrimination against Palestinian workers is not forgotten either.
https://bdsmovement.net/news/%E2%80%9Csodastream-still-subject-boycott%E2%80%9D
Do you have any idea how much of the implementation of Saddam and the war to overthrow him were designed by the US State Department? How many war crimes the US committed against the civilians living in the middle east during those wars?
The US is neither a Democracy nor a Republic
Many US Laws are in opposition to public sentiment. Especially on healthcare, abortion, and taxes on the wealthy. The US is not representative of the interests of American citizens, only the interests of the donor class and corporations
You're both right. The existence of LGBT people and feminism does threaten the 'legitimacy' of religious fundamentalists (namely Evangelicals and Dominionists in America) by undermining their masculine authority they claim to de ordained by God. It's more than just a numbers game. They certainly want a huge indoctrinated following. To do that they need to constantly persecute and 'cure' LGBT people and feminists, otherwise their 'legitimacy' would crumble from within the evangelical movement.
The app is nice too (No Thanks) you just need to scan the barcode to check if something is on the boycott list. Pretty sure it's on both Android and iOS
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McDonald’s (US), Burger King (US), Papa John’s (US), Pizza Hut (US), WIX (Israel), etc. are now being targeted in some countries by grassroots organic boycott campaigns, not initiated by the BDS movement. BDS supports these boycott campaigns because these companies, or their branches or franchisees in Israel, have openly supported apartheid Israel and/or provided generous in-kind donations to the Israeli military amid the current genocide. If these grassroots campaigns are not already organically active in your area, we suggest focusing your energies on our strategic campaigns above.
https://www.bdsmovement.net/act-now-against-these-companies-profiting-from-genocide
You are not, nor are you an expert, nor have you done your own investigation. If you genuinely cared about the humanity and well-being of the Palestinian people, you would take these reports seriously and read them to find out exactly what is happening. It's not normal to dehumanize a people to the point of denying a genocide, hope you get well soon. Empathy is the most important aspect of understanding intersectionality, to recognize and take the perspective of other people facing forms of oppression. There have been plenty of genocides that the ICJ and ICC have not recognized, for one reason or another. That does not make them any less of a genocide. It's the facts on the ground that matter. And that's exactly the point of these reports from Amnesty and Euro-Med Monitor.
You can actually look at the evidence for once. Read the executive summary or skip to chapter 5, but read something. If you got a problem with the report, quote it and explain why instead of dismissing it for no reason other than you don't want to believe it.
Spoken like someone who hasn't seen a single piece of footage of what the situation in Gaza look like, nor have read any of the detailed reports on exactly how it is a genocide.
You're in denial. Here's a list of resources to understand how it's a genocide. You're also mistaking the ICC, which prosecutes people, with the ICJ, which prosecutes Countries.
“Here in Deir al-Balah, it’s like an apocalypse. There is no room for you to pitch a tent; you have to set it up near the coast… You have to protect your children from insects, from the heat, and there is no clean water, no toilets, all while the bombing never stops. You feel like you are subhuman here.”
- Mohammed, a 42-year-old father of three, speaking in June 2024 about his experience of displacement from Rafah to Deir al-Balah governorate
Here is the link to the Amnesty Report:
It speaks about Theodore Herzl, but doesn't acknowledge that he envisioned a peaceful dual state of Jews and Arabs together
Herzl explicitly talked about the 'transfer' of the native Palestinian people and about Zionism as a Colonialist Ideology. There is no peace in ethnic cleansing. Zionists explicitly rejected a Unitary state repeatedly before beginning Plan Dalet in 1947
Jews who left Europe to go back to their homeland, but doesn't mention the fact that the majority of Jewish Israelis are descended from people who never lived in Europe.
The books linked do. Nor does that change the reality of Zionism as Settler Colonialism.
It describes Jews "arriving" in the Land of Israel under British rule as though there were not already Jewish communities there when the Ottomans arrived in the 1500s.
Again, they do. Especially the detailed history by both Ilan Pappe, Nur Masalha, and Rashid Khalidi. Explicitly the difference being that Zionist Settlers were engaging in ethnic cleansing.
It leans heavily on the worship of Ilan Pappe, who has been criticized as "one of the world's sloppiest historians" and has been accused of academic fraud
By Benny Morris who considers the Nakba justified. The criticisms are unfounded. But regardless, read works by Rashid Khalidi, Avi Schlaim, Sara Roy, Nur Masalha, or Schlomo Sand. Far more reputable Historians agree with Ilan Pappe and recognize his work as highly credible.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/response-benny-morris-politics-other-means-new-republic/5040
It mentions the increase in Jewish population in Palestine (about 590k from 1890-1947), but doesn't mention that the Muslim population increased by even more over the same period.
Did you forget that the point is the Ethnic Cleansing, Occupation, and Apartheid? The reality of the Settlements in the West Bank? The Blockade that has been starving Gaza for decades?
One of these migrant groups is assumed to be "native" while the other is called "colonizers" for reasons that are never justified.
The Settler Colonialism. What are you on? The entire point of this links are to provide more details.
A copy-pasted wall of text with lots of links is no substitute for critical thinking and basic historical awareness.
Quite clear you lack both
When a person spends far too long cherry-picking historical sources, they blind themselves to the broader picture and lose sight of the forest for the trees.
Gaza has never stopped being under Israeli occupation since 1967. Hamas only exists because of the Apartheid Occupation of Israel and the daily violence that has subjected Palestinians to for generations. Israel has always been the obstacle for peace, and has been the one preventing a ceasefire.
Rashid Khalidi does think there is a change happening, he discusses it a bit in his latest interview with Adam Conover
Zionism is a settler colonialism project that was able to really start with the support of British Imperialism. Zionism as a political movement started with Theodore Herzl in the 1880s as a 'modern' way to 'solve' the 'Jewish Question' of Europe. Western Nations supported this instead of instituting legal protections and refuge for Jewish people fleeing persecution.
Adi Callai, an Israeli, does a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized by Zionism during its history.
Since at least the 1860's, Europe was increasingly antisemitic and hostile to Jewish people. Zionism was explicitly a Setter Colonialist movement and the native Palestinians were not considered People but Savages by the Europeans. While Zionist Colonization began before it, the Balfor Declaration is when Britain gave it's backing of the movement in order to 'solve' the 'Jewish Question' while also creating a Colony in the newly conquered Middle East after WWI in order to exhibit military force in the region and extract natural resources.
That's when Zionist immigration started to pick up, out of necessity for most as Europe became more hostile and antisemitic. That continued into and during WWII, European countries and even the US refused to expand immigration quotas for Jewish people seeking asylum. The idea that the creation of Israel is a reparation for Jewish people is an after-the-fact justification. While most Jewish immigrants had no choice and just wanted a place to live in peace, it was the Zionist Leadership that developed and implemented the forced transfer, ethnic cleansing, of the native population, Palestinians. Without any Occupation, Apartheid, and ethnic cleansing, there would not be any Palestinian resistance to it.
Herzl himself explicitly considered Zionism a Settler Colonialist project, Setter Colonialism is always violent. The difficulty in creating a democratic Jewish state in an area inhabited by people who are not Jewish, is that enough Palestinian people need to be 'Transferred' to have a demographic majority that is Jewish. Ben-Gurion explicitly rejected Secular Bi-national state solutions in favor of partition.
- Page 8, The Concept of Transfer 1882-1948
- 10 myths of Israel by Ilan Pappe, summerized and full book
- Transfer Committee and the JNF led to Forced Displacement of 100,000 Palestinians throughout the mandate.
The existence of Hamas, and any armed resistance movement, is directly due to the decades of violence experienced daily under the permanent occupation, the Apartheid State, of Israel. It's impossible to understand their existence if you don't understand the lived experience and material conditions they are forced to live under. There is no such thing as a perfect victim when it comes to anti-Colonialist resistance, not for the Vietcong, the IRA, or the ANC either. Can you condemn the violence of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the same way as the violence of the Warsaw Ghetto?
In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Masha Gessen, the situation in Gaza is compared to the Warsaw Ghettos. The comparison was also made by a Palestinian poet who was later killed by an Israeli airstrike. Adi Callai has also written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video
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Amnesty International says there is ‘sufficient evidence’ to accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza | CNN
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“Here in Deir al-Balah, it’s like an apocalypse. There is no room for you to pitch a tent; you have to set it up near the coast… You have to protect your children from insects, from the heat, and there is no clean water, no toilets, all while the bombing never stops. You feel like you are subhuman here.”
- Mohammed, a 42-year-old father of three, speaking in June 2024 about his experience of displacement from Rafah to Deir al-Balah governorate
Link to the Amnesty Report: Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza
Kombucha can scratch that soda itch for me. Humm makes some good ones and is not on the boycott list.
There are also Italian sodas you can make with syrup and sparkling water, let's you choose the strength of the sweetness too