Fucking ghouls dressing their children up to celebrate genocide. Themselves, dressing up as mad a racist mass murderer. Wtf is wrong with Israel? Ghouls.
Hamas, the Islamic movement that has been embroiled in fierce combat with Israel in the Gaza Strip since the slaughter of 1,200 Israelis and foreigners on October 7, was founded by Sheikh Ahmad Yassin 36 years ago this month during the opening days of the first Palestinian uprising.
Its status as an important component of the Palestinian struggle against Israel is ably chronicled by Tareq Baconi in Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford University Press). Although this book was published in 2018 and has been somewhat overtaken by recent events, it is well worth reading even today because it is thorough and comprehensive in scale and scope.
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Describing Hamas as “the movement currently most representative of the notion of armed resistance against Israel,” he also compares it to “a religious and armed anti-colonial resistance movement.” At another point, he quotes Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh as saying, “We are a people who value death, just as our enemies value life.”
Interestingly enough, Baconi is “unwavering” in his condemnation of targeting civilians on either side of the Israeli/Palestinian divide. Yet he rejects the common assumption that Hamas is a terrorist group, and concurs with the view that “Palestinian resistance fighters” are engaged in “a justified war” against Israel, which, he admits, is “a superb foe.”
“Hamas turned to suicide bombings as a tactic after an American Jewish settler, Baruch Goldstein, killed 29 Palestinian worshippers in a mosque in Hebron in 1994.”
Brad Sherman models the perfect pro-Israel Democrat
This piece, written late last week, takes on a new importance in light of the Israeli massacre in Jenin and the Palestinian lone shooter attack in Neve Yakov. More to the point, the importance it’s magnified by Antony Blinken’s contemptible tour of Middle East criminals, from Cairo and al-Sisi to Jerusalem and Netanyahu.
The article examines the words of Brad Sherman, one of the most zealous…
ALESSANDRO ORSINI - I 5 FATTI CHE DIMOSTRANO IL TERRORISMO DELLO STATO DI ISRELE
di Alessandro Orsini*
Questa è una sfida alla mefitica lobby israeliana, basata in Italia, che sostiene il massacro dei bambini palestinesi a Gaza raccogliendo firme per chiudermi la bocca. Io sono ancora qui. Non siete ancora riusciti a silenziarmi, a ottenere il mio licenziamento dall’Università, la chiusura dei miei social e la mia espulsione dalla televisione. Dato l’impegno profuso in…
Jesus Bethlehem, Brooklyn. Photo illustration: A Journey through NYC religions
In the spring of 1969 Moishe Rosen, a speaker for the American Board of Mission to the Jews, entertained his audience at Intervarsity Christian Fellowship at Columbia University with a few sarcastic remarks on the hippies who were flooding New York. He recycled the well-worn joke, “A hippie dresses like Tarzan, walks…
How you can help stop vigilante settler rampages (or at least try to do something)
Headline and photo from Times of Israel on June 21, 2023
A couple days ago I visited the websites of my House Rep and both Senators and sent them versions of the following message. Please feel free to copy and paste (or modify) as you wish. The content speaks for itself.
Dear Senator _________,
I am writing to express my strong support for the comments of US Ambassador Nides, in which he…
I dont 'hate Arabs', I hate people who actively want me dead. I hate Islamic extremists and Arab ultranationalists just as much as I hate Jewish extremists and Israeli ultranationalists like Bezalel Smotrich, or Baruch Goldstein, or Miri Regev, or the common Eliran outside screaming for actual apartheid. I hate people who would shove me in a camp for being either Jewish or gay the moment theyll legally be able to. I hate people who dont view me as human because Im Jewish or gay. I hate people who are incapable of reaching any form of middle ground and want all-or-nothing types of solutions. I hate people who want a Jewish/Islamic theocracy as a country. I hate people who think more violence is the solution to everything, be it the ones who think raping and murdering random Israelis is justified or the ones who think that holding on to the despicable current status quo in the West Bank is A NecessityTM. I hate people who formulate their opinions on the conflict based on either feelings alone or facts alone, incapable of bridging between the two in a sensible way. I hate people who are so terrified of looking at their own culture, be it Israeli or Arab, in an objective way; who are terrified of pointing the finger at the things that make said culture violent/unjust because it will break whatever narrative they set up for themselves. I hate people who take pride in ruining the lives of others, be it terrorists who upload GoPro footage of their murders or IDF soldiers who upload cute uwu videos of mindless beatings/torture of palestinian detainees or pillaging a random Gazan's house. I hate people who mindlessly and uncritically consume content online with the sole purpose of vilifying The OthersTM, and people who uncritically consume said content in a language+cultural context they dont even understand. I hate people who put videos in Arabic through an uwuification/woobification process and translate the word 'Yahoodi' to 'Israeli' to avoid admitting that antisemitism is rife within Arab society and is taught from a young age. I hate people who view the Druze as 'our brothers' because they serve in the army and dont complain but treat Israeli Arabs like shit because they dont serve in the army and do complain. I hate people who derive the value of others from their Loyalty To The StateTM whether its the Israeli state or The Palestinian StruggleTM. I hate people who view others as either 'Arab' or 'Israeli' instead of complex human beings capable of both good and horrible things. I hate people who distort history for clout and political gain. I hate people who talk shit on anon because theyre too much of a pussy to have a conversation attached to their username.
Historical photo of the day: A young Itamar Ben Gvir in 1995 after stealing the hood ornament from the car of Israeli PM Yizthak Rabin shortly before he was assassinated. “We got to his car. We’ll get to him, too,” he said.
Today, Ben Gvir, an actual terrorist by any standards, is Israel’s minister of national security, and arguably Israel’s most powerful man, given how dependant Netanyahu is on him to keep his ruling coalition together.
For years, Ben Gvir proudly displaced in his office a photo of Baruch Goldstein, the Israeli-American settler who massacred 29 Palestinian worshippers in 1994 in a mosque in Hebron (Al Khalil), several of them as young as 12 years old.
Thirty years after Baruch Goldstein’s massacre, his followers are now carrying out a genocide
It has been thirty years since Baruch Goldstein carried out his massacre of Palestinian worshippers in Hebron. His legacy of bloodshed continues in Gaza and the West Bank as his followers are now in power.
while it was always an inherently dishonest tactic, you could at least try to spin the facts to present israel as the most "progressive" country in its region (which still did the nakba and treated mizrahi jews as second-class citizens, to be clear) during the heyday of labor zionism (which was social democratic at its core, though even if it were a truly socialist ideology that would not excuse it), but its kind of impossible to do that now when the minister of national security is a literal kahanist who used to have a portrait of mass murderer baruch goldstein in his living room up until 2019
On February 25th, 1994 when Baruch Goldstein, a Brooklyn-born zionist settler, murdered 29 Palestinians in cold blood and wounded over one hundred and fifty more as they prayed in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron in the West Bank.
Goldstein was then overpowered, disarmed and beaten to death by the survivors in an act of self-defense and collective resistance, who rushed at him as he fired his automatic rifle with nothing but their fists.
In the direct aftermath of Goldstein’s shooting spree on February 25th, occupation forces murdered 6 more Palestinians, and in the days that followed, as Palestinians across historic Palestine took to the streets in mass protests to condemn the massacre, occupation forces responded by killing an estimated 26 Palestinians, nearly as many people as were massacred in the mosque.
While israeli politicians tried to distance themselves from Goldstein, the blood was on their hands, too. In October 1993 after Goldstein was identified as the culprit of an acid attack that left holes in the carpet of the mosque and after he assaulted six Palestinians, the Ibrahimi Mosque’s authorities wrote to the israeli prime minister, warning of the danger that Goldstein posed. They never received a response.
Goldstein was a follower of the fascist zionist Meir Kahane who founded the Jewish Defense League in NYC in 1968. The JDL would go on to become known for its terrorist activities, carrying out multiple bombings in the 1970s and assassinating Palestinian-American community organizer Alex Odeh in 1985. Before settling in Palestine in 1983, Goldstein was a member of the JDL in Brooklyn, where both he and Kahane were born and raised.
"Ustedes dicen que solo es un niño de 12 años. Un niño palestino de 12 años es un terrorista. Un niño de 12 años pone en riesgo a nuestros soldados, un niño de 12 años lanzó fuegos artificiales". Ben Gvir, ministro de seguridad del apartheid, reivindicó el asesinato de un niño palestino de 12 años de edad que estaba lanzando fuegos artificiales frente a su casa junto con sus amigos celebrando el Ramadán, en el campamento de refugiados de Shuafat, en la Jerusalén Este ocupada. Ben Gvir es un fanático fascista recalcitrante que tiene como ídolo a Baruch Goldstein, el asesino en masa que mató a 29 palestinos dentro de la Mezquita Ibrahimi en 1994, del que tiene incluso un cuadro en su casa.
Mr Mr Biden, you have been defending Israel’s disproportionate use of force, collective punishment and brutal massacres in plural.
Your government is also supporting the more than 60,000 American settlers in the West Bank. They believe in the heroism of the terrorists and racists Baruch Goldstein and Meir Kahane, two American citizens whose followers are part of the Likud led government. They are seen as the prophets of the settler movement and the American fanatics who compose approximately 15 per cent of the total settler population in the occupied West Bank. In addition, there are about 100,000 US citizens in occupied East Jerusalem.
This makes a strong case. Who would have thought this administration would be the worst, most hawkish!?
Jesus Bethlehem, Brooklyn. Photo illustration: A Journey through NYC religions
In the spring of 1969 Moishe Rosen, a speaker for the American Board of Mission to the Jews, entertained his audience at Intervarsity Christian Fellowship at Columbia University with a few sarcastic remarks on the hippies who were flooding New York. He recycled the well-worn joke, “A hippie dresses like Tarzan, walks…