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penguicorns-are-cool · 7 months

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Here is a list of organizations to donate to if you want to help victims of the war in Israel, but first, a little thing about not spreading misinformation

If you do not have a good understanding of Isreali/Palestinain history

If you think the Isreali/Palestinian conflict started in 1948

If you don't have a clear understanding of what zionism means

If you didn't know before reading this that there are multiple types of Zionism

If you think that zionism means support of the Isreali government

If you don't know much about Hamas

If you don't have any idea about what's been happening in Israel for the past few years

please don't make general political statements about what's happening rn. Don't claim you understand what's happening enough to explain it or make judgements on what anyone involved should do. This is how misinformation is spread. This is how propoganda that harms both Jews and Palestinians gets spread. This is how you give a platform to antisemites who use anti-zionism as a cover for their bigotry. This is how you accidentally spread messages that actually mean to kill all the Jews because you didn't have the context to understand that that's what it meant.

You can express sympathy or share posts with links to donate to organizations that are trying to help people affected and get people out of gaza, but please please please don't make a statement about it or try to explain it.

There is so much misinformation out there about this, there always has been, ever since antisemitism became a thing like 2000 years ago there has been propoganda about every single thing that Jews were involved in.

I know a lot of people are posting things about how "your silence is deafening" and all that but I'm gonna be honest I would rather you be silent than share information you don't have the understanding to fact-check or make a statement you don't have the background knowledge to make.

If you want to help, here are some organizations you can donate to and share around, but beyond that please try to avoid spreading misinformation. This really isn't something you can just look up and find credible information about, especially with how much propoganda has been used against both Jews and Arabs (I know not all Palestinians are Arabs but a lot of the anti-Arab propoganda gets applied to them because people are ignorant)

MDAIS are paramedics in Israel and they need equipment to help treat victims of the war

The Palestine Red Crescent Society are paramedics in Palestine and also need funding for equipment to help treat victims of the war

This is a GoFund me to raise funds to rebuild Kibbutz Nir Oz where many people were killed/ kidnapped/ or are still missing and many homes were destroyed

UNRWA is a UN relief organization for Palestinian refugees. Israel, Egypt, and Hamas are beginning to talk about organizing a ceasefire and safe passage for Gaza citizens and if that happens then the UNRWA will need the extra funding to help them. They also just generally need the funding.

https://israelrescue.org/donate/

Hatzalah of Israel is a volunteer emergency medical response organization and they also need funding for equipment. Just, if you see any emergency medical response organizations they NEED the supplies. Everyone is running out of medical supplies in Israel in Gaza

Here's another medical response organization. They focus on children in Gaza and aren't generally emergency medical response, but recently have been mobilizing emergency medical shelters.

This one is for Thai migrant workers who are more at risk of dying in the war because of language barriers and migrant status. Because this website is all in hebrew I will link a tumblr post with an english explanation of what they do here

Feel free to reblog with more organizations helping victims of the war

#i/p #israel #palestine #israel war #gaza #donate #please donate #please reblog #humanitarian #humanitarian organizations

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madmollah · 22 days

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In this video of Aljazeera, we witness yet another display of the isreali Nazi regime's barbarity, cruelty, and explicit determination to employ any method to deprive our families in Gaza and perpetrate genocide. They even resort to massacring civilians attempting to retrieve aid provided by those arming them and enabling their atrocities through support, vetoes, and a distorted narrative, thus sustaining their terror and oppression against our people.

#palestine #gaza #gaza strip #palestinian lives matter #gazaunderattack #palestinewillbefree #free gaza #free palestine #gaza under attack

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stupendousvoidkryptonite · 2 months

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Mattel's CEO is pro-palestine.

He signed a letter denouncing the October 7th attacks because he is Isreali.

He has said that he supports Palestine.

"As an Israeli, it is very personal to me. And I know too many people who lost loved ones and pray for the release of hostages held in Gaza. On behalf of the company, we condemn terrorism and stand against hate and violence in all forms. We express our hope for the safety of Israeli and Palestinian children and families caught in the Israeli-Hamas war. And since the Hamas attacks of October 7th, the Mattel Children’s Foundation has been focused on humanitarian work, including cash and toy donations to shelters and hospitals to support children who are suffering, and we really wish for the swift resolution of this war and more peaceful times in the future.”

You can keep buying Mattel products, boycotting Mattel is pointless.

#mattel #boycott isreal #boycott mattel #barbie #american girl #my scene #polly pocket #monster high #ever after high

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klett161 · 6 months

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In this Blog post I‘ll try to clarify whats currently going on Between Israel, Hamas and the Civillian population of Palestine and analysing It because most people get absolutly misinformed by Corporate media Propaganda, so let‘s get into It.

Trigger warning for basically every kind of Violence and dehumanization

Also this blog is in parts extremely Cynical and some parts are ironic in making fun of dumb people having even dumber opinion’s marked in red

Also just a Trigger warning for bad spelling

First of all for all, for people who still need the Clarification: The Palestine state does NOT equal Hamas the Hamas is a fundamentalist Jihadist terror group which engages in Barbarism they are in fact not a Based anti Colonialist movement. The Hamas is only holding Power in the Area known as the Gaza strip and has done so since 2007, the territory of Palestine is much larger than the Gaza Strip but because of actuality reasons im mainly focusing on Gaza in this post.

Also the Israeli state is not and never has been representative of the entirety of Judaism or even a majority of It. Critique directet at the Israeli state thus is not critique against Judaism and not Anti semetic. Calling everyone Anti semectic is just an defense mechanism of the Isreali state being called out on It‘s crimes. But It is also Important to remember that Anti Semitism is a real thing and Jews are disproportionately targets of hate crimes. Also disproportionately the targets of hate crimes are Muslims or just Arabic looking people. I can‘t believe I still have to say this but: No muslim peacefully practicing their Religion (wich is as in every Religion an Overwhelming majority) is at any kind of fault for what some deranged facistoide Terror group does.

So lets start of:

Although it is true that the renewed hostility’s of the last day’s were started of by the Horrific attacks of the Hamas it is all to often not at all or just as a side note mentioned that Israel has been Bombing the Gaza strip more or less consistently for years and years claiming to target underground tunnels or Hospitals in whom of course Hamas had weapon deposits or Rockets or whatever and that every Civillian casualty was just „Colleteral damage“. It‘s just a very convenient coincidence for Israel that those people who It want‘s exterminated from it‘s state anyway die in these bombings. But also part of the truth is everyone knows what has been going on in Gaza the last years but the media mentioned it maybe once every few months so It couldn‘t be that bad right? The truth is people and Goverments in the West just didn‘t give a fuck because there were far worse problems like, like the Economic growth going down by 0.5% My God how terrible! Western Goverments more or less directly enabled the ongoing Genocide with their outspoken support, full solidarity and weapon sells and funds for the Israeli state.

Now Religious fundamentalist terrorist cells like Hamas don‘t just happen, they require a breeding ground of despair and material insecurity which is undeniably the case in the Gaza strip. But in the case of Hamas it would have probably never had a chance to gain dominance over the Fatah If it would not have been funded by the Israeli state, no that‘s not a weird conspiracy it was literally admitted by several former state officials. So now you could just say that the Israeli state harmed itself by funding and building up Hamas but the existence of Hamas really is the best thing that could have happend to the Goverment of Israel, for now they have an enemy who’s violent and barbaric actions mirror those they commit(altough on a much smaller scale) thus (In the eyes of the Public) justifying even more violence against the Civillian population of Palestine and Gaza specifically. For Hamas it is the same thing, If it were not for the genocidal actions of Israel they couldn‘t legitimize their existence they couldn‘t legitimize their heinous crimes. So you could say that on both sides facist goverments of some kind are profiting of off fighting with eachother, you can really see that for the leaders of Hamas it is not an anti colonial fight by the fact that most of them are sitting around in Qatar. The losers on both sides being the Civillian population altough it has to be said that the Palestinian civillians have suffered and will suffer far more because the Conflict mostly takes place in their country not on the land controlled by Israel. So as much as Israeli state officials will in every statement say how much they hate the war and how shocked they are about Hamas killing Civillians (by which they of course mean white Isrealis or foreigners, Arabs don‘t count) so far it has been a best case scenario for them because it helps them to facilitate their power further and seemingly justifys them in their new colonial expansion more than ever backed by the public in Western countries and their own population.

As angry as all this shit may make you it is always important to remember to not fall in generalizations and blaming of entire group’s. Not all of the Israeli citizens are responsible for what their state does and no Palestinian civillian is at fault for what Hamas did, despite a lot of media reports claiming thats the case alla „Yea but they had ONE single election in 2007 where people choose the Hamas over Fatah (mind you this just happend because of Israeli funding) so they should be held responsible for everything happening since“ by the way more than half of the population in Gaza wasn‘t even of age and didn‘t have the right to Vote back then. But even If we ignored that the Election did just turn out the way It did because of Israel you would have to ask yourself why didn‘t the Israeli citizens who had FIVE elections since 2019 alone Vote differently or is this whole thing maybe not about Voter liability at all and just a way to dehumanize and legitimze the killing of Palestinians by letting people think that Hamas has the full and absolut support of the people? (But the Media surely wouldn‘t do this)

But not only is this claim widely accepted but people defending Israel also double down on it and are saying that „If they don‘t support the actions of their Government they could just overthrow it“ I don‘t even know where to start with this, first of all It’s actually not that easy to overthrow an Authoritarian Government which has the backing of the majority of regional powers and is armed to the teeth but even If we pretended like overthrowing the Government was an easy thing to do we could raise funny little questions such as: Why the fuck didn‘t Israel just overthrow their Goverment which is responsible for all of this in the first place? Or: Why didn‘t people in the USA just overthrow their Goverment when it Invaded Iraq or Vietnam which isn‘t even comaprabel because those thing lead to MILLIONS of dead people not a few thousand. But yeah I guess this standard just applies for people in Gaza and not for white people in the western World. Ok ok but let‘s say the people of Gaza overthrow Hamas and have a super duper Democratic state much more democratic than Israel and with more Human rights, do you really think Israel would give a fuck, the only thing that would realistically chance is that it would just be a little bit harder for Israel to justify their war crimes infront of the generall public but Israel has time and time again proven they don‘t care about condemnation of their war crimes and settler policy which basically go hand in hand. There are basically an infinite amount of times Israel has been condemned by the Un, it didn’t change anything. Israel didn‘t start Bombing and expelling because terrorists exist, terrorists exist because Israel started Bombing and expelling.

Other ridiculous claims to legitimise Israel are:

„BUT QuEEr pEOplE aRe LiTerALlY KiLeD IN GaZa“ ok and how is Israel (which itself does discriminate LGBTQ+ people) helping the situation by funding terror groups and Bombing and entire Region in to the Stoneage? Or could it be that you really don‘t give a fuck about Queer rights and just wan‘t to, again dehumanize and legitimize the Killing of Palestinian people in the Gaza.

And:

„But Jewish people lived their for longer they were just expelled by the Romans and only after that Arabs settled there“ ok and now what? Throughout history so many ethnic groups lived on so many different pieces of Land If you go by this principle you’d have to give the biggest part of Anatolia to greece because „Greek“ (in caption because back then ethnicity’s were much less uniformly defined compared to today) people were there before „Turks“ arrived from the middle of Asia and todays Xinjiang region so some of these regions you’d then have to give to Turkey and so on and so on I think you get the point. Also it is pretty similar to the Justification Russia used to kick of the Invasion of Ukraine.

I also wan‘t to Note that you may not have heard all of the listed points people use to defend Israel and probably heard some others I didn‘t, thats fine Im not determined to break down every single shitty Argument people try to justify the ongoing genocide with because it has the same pattern as pretty much all arguments trying to defend Facism. They throw so much shitty arguments at you faster than its possible to disprove them so that at the end something will stick. Of course they don‘t really believe in all of them, for example a lot of American evangelicals believe that Jews have to controll the Holy Land for the great rapture to happen in that all the Jews will be killed and only true Christian believers (they mean themselves of course) will get into Heaven but they know fully well how Antisemetic and badshit insane this sounds so they just use above mentioned Arguments.

Another point I wan‘t to talk about is the Media reporting and Hegemony of discourse which is of course highly dependent on the way the media reports. To make my point I just quickly wan‘t to break down some of the ways news shows like to frame the situation and what implicit Bias they carry. One very easy thing to do is just strait up ignoring things that happen to Palestinians and don‘t mention it at all or when they try not to be super obvious or to avoid allegations of biased reporting they mention like one minute that several hundred or thousand people died in an hospital explosion in Gaza and then talk several minutes about the Hostages taken by Hamas and their Family’s and the jobs and dreams these people had, first of all this leaves the audience in the assumption that because the segment talking about the Hostages was longer this topic is more relevant and second giving the people a real impression of how much a Human life is worth because every individual person has dreams hope etc. but when it‘s Palestinians that are targeted they just talk about numbers thus a large part of the Sympathy victim’s of Hamas (You know one dead man is a tragedy a million dad men are a Statistic) receive is not perceived for the Palestinians. Also as I write this, it isn‘t confirmed who blew up the Hospital but the assumption that it was the IDF which has been blowing up Hospitals multiple times to date and is currently Bombing more than ever before is likely to be true, so what does the news segment give us, it gives us only the assumption of the IDF which is of course saying that it was Hamas and leaving it with that, I don‘t think i need to break down how letting only one side talk about their perspective is manipulative. Also most media really likes to talk about how Israel is „fighting back“ so just narrowly focusing on what happend since the attack of Hamas a few days ago and leaving out years of Bombing, illegal settlements, killing of peacfull protestors and sieging of Gaza as a whole. So if you have the whole pretext you could also say Hamas fought back against Israel (which wouldn‘t be very helpful since AGAIN what they did is unjustifiabble) that would be much closer to the truth. Or a reporting of the BBC that I reposted a few days ago talking about Israelis who have been killed and Palestinians who have died in the conflict, implying that behind every Israeli death was an deliberate effort and Palestinians just so happend to die.

Who‘s having total Hegemony over discourse get‘s really clear if you talk about this conflict in literally any way that isn‘t directly what the Israeli state says, you are constantly asked to clarify that you are not apologizing Hamas, you point out the history of the conflict? Your justifiyng terror. You are saying that the IDF shouldn‘t kill civilians? Yeah but could you please distance yourself from Hamas? You are saying that Israel doesn’t have any right to exterminate Palestinians and ethnically cleanse their country? You are literally an Anti semite and clearly just trying to justify Hamas. And yes even in this Blog I have to condemn Hamas multiple times and will probably still be called Anti semitic, If public discourse would be sane people couldn‘t just say that they are in Solidarity with Israel and not point out that they condemn the ongoing Genocide and it would be Impossible for a Politician to say that Israels actions are appropriate. But in the world we live in it is not just basically Impossible for Politicians to say that they stay with Palestine but any position other than full and unconditional support for Israel is critically looked upon and you can probably hear a Voice in the backround of a press conference, asking: „so you publicly embrace Hamas?“. That about summs up the state of discourse at least in my and many other western countries and most online spaces, which are really dominated by western countries.

It all really is just the result of:

1. A new far right stronger than ever in western countries and bringing with them an environment in whom It‘s okay to talk shit about „foreigners“ (meant are of Course the scarry brown people not other whites even when they come from the other end of the world) and Muslims just for practicing their religion and using them as Scapegoats for everything bad happening. If you learned anything from History (which seems Increasingly uncommon) you probably heard of a group being treated in a similar way before. Of course some factors differ because History doesn‘t just repeat and I am definitely not saying that Gaza is literally a Concentration camp, but does It have to become that obvious for people to finally see that this is in fact an ongoing Genocide? Out of the Blue a something of the likes happening in Gaza would be unthinkable but if you have years and years of normalization of the mistreatment of Arabs and specifically Palestinians and Muslims and seeing people first of all always as members of a certain group(again only applies for Muslims or Arabs) is it really that surprising that we have reached a point were people can openly talk about having no sympathy for the Civillian victims in Gaza without lossing their teeth? (which of course I wouldn‘t suggest to do because muh violence bad)Also it should be noted that killing and smoothering Victims of war trying to escape the horrors has become a Normal part of EU border enforcement it is in fact so normalized no one ever talks about it, it is just accepted that people are going to die when they try to come here, they probably should have used a better Boat or something like that.

2. The deliberate effort of the Israeli state to blame all people living in Gaza for what Hamas did and cleverly using their Status as a Jewish state to smear everyone not supporting their genocide as a Nazi and Anti semite, going so far as to say that Palestine is the reason the Holocaust happend, thus proving that they really don‘t give a fuck about the History of Jewish suffering.

In the end I can say nothing but stay Informed by independent sources for example Indymedia, listen to the Victims and don‘t ever believe the Israeli state. Also stay aware of the fact that basically all media is owned and operated by some Billion dollar Conglomerate most of them don’t care about the truth but about you thinking what they want you to think. For everyone interested in the details of why media is so dishonest and biased just go read Manufacturing consent by Noam Chomsky or look at an summary of lt. And take everything you hear with a pinch of Salt.

How Israel helped to create Hamas: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/

#leftism #socialism #anarchism #leftist #anti facist #palestine #gaza #its not our media #its their media #media #fuck israel #israel #genocide #gaza genocide #racisim

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pineapplerightsideupcake · 6 months

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Like you I support a two state solution. I’d like to see peace, I’d like to see Palestinians given back their basic human rights, to safety, food, water, healthcare and the right to live on their land as democratic citizens, I’m so sad that this might never happen. It disturbs me when I see free Palestine activists talk about all Israelis being evil settlers, and wanting Israelis to leave from Israel. To be clear, I do personally think the Isreali government is evil, but I find it creepy the way people don’t separate civilians from their government. People want them to leave and go where? To me it feels that they want them to be homeless and die. A lot of these people are Americans but they say “American settlers are evil too, so checkmate” as if that even means anything, European Americans don’t face any threat of having to leave America, there is no mainstream activist movement that wants European Americans to disappear, they don’t face a significant terrorism threat, it’s not really equivalent at all. They can say that they apply the same rule to themselves because they’ll never be in that position. Of course I am so disturbed the the fascism of Isreali nationalists, who want Palestinians to be wiped out, genocide is their idea of peace, it twists inside my stomach when i see the things they say. I see people online who genuinely want all of palestianians to be dead. This conflict is so awful and it’s so hard to see a peaceful solution. And I am so disgusted by some of the reactions of people who ware not affected by it, the dehumanization of Palestinians and Israelis is insane. They are all people. Every single one of them. But a lot of people don’t want to see that

Two state isn’t even the only option. I’ve been reading some articles about a move to do something a little more blended. The point being that maybe we should respect the people who actually live there to figure out what works for them.

I’m appalled at how many people would rather Palestinians continue to suffer under Hamas and the IDF on principle, rather than both Israel and Palestine ousting their respective reactionary regimes.

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gazanarchive · 2 months

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"Where is my home? Where is my father? Where is my mother? Where is my brother? Where is my sister? Where are my lovers? Where is the humanity?".

Photo: Magdi Fathi

#palestine #gaza #israel #isreali terrorism

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lady-byleth · 26 days

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i remember one time me and my family were traveling and we accidentally got caught up in a pro isreali rally because our car was trapped on the same street as them, im upset i couldnt do anything to show my disgust towards the zionists because there were so many people but the next time i want to do something, free palestine and its people from the colonist state of isreal and let the world open their own eyes to the genocide

I feel ya, friend. There are pro palestine rallies in the area all the time but I don't have a car and my parents don't want to risk me getting beaten up by the cops, which is happening more and more in Germany, and the trains are constantly out of order so I have no way of getting there and it's so fucking frustrating!

People are removing my stickers, my reach on twitter has been limited, protesting in this country is a nightmare. But I'll still do what I can, I don't care that I already got reported, they can't do shit to me anyway

So, hell yeah, anon! Down with the colonist terror state! Justice and Freedom for Palestine!!!

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intersectionalpraxis · 6 months

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Therapy Jeff was one of the first people I followed when I started my tiktok account last year, and seeing him being added to the list of people that are blatently avoiding talking about the war crimes, crimes against humanity, acts of terrorism, and genocide that the Israeli government has been committing against Palestinian people is just beyond baffling to me. I wanted to make this video to remind folks to KEEP amplifying, sharing, and bearing witness to Palestinian people's experiences and stories. They need us. And we still need to keep doing our part in not being complicit to Western/Isreali propoganda denying the severity of Israeli settlers crimes against innocent Palestinian people.

Also, this video was flagged for "violating community guidelines," seconds after it was posted:

I see what you're doing Jeff, and it's disappointing.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

#feminist #palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸#israel is an apartheid state #israel #gaza #free gaza #human rights

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lookingfornoonat2pm · 5 months

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🇮🇱/ 🇵🇸 (Long, and I do mean long post)

A crucial question for analysis of the US response to the situation in Israel/Palestine is actually a pretty simple one: "Why now?"

Why such an outpouring of support for Palestine now, and not 10 years ago, not 20 years ago? What is special about the moment we're in such that the tides of public sentiment have turned so enormously and so suddenly against the Isreali government, among the population of its most powerful supporter?

While sentiments seem to have started to turn in the 1990s, the US response to 9/11, and the launching of the Global War on Terror set the cause of Palestinian liberation back quite significantly. Islamophobia defined American pop culture for nearly a decade. So what happenedb?

There are a host of paranoid answers to this question, and some of them do have real merit. Trumpism and its attendant viciousness mainstreamed some of the most pernicious antisemitism the US has known for some time. The growth in anti-authoritarianism around government failures to handle Covid-19 effectively has also contributed to an environment of paranoia and antisemitism.

"Formal antisemitism", a concept that many on the left are woefully ignorant about, can help explain this. Basically, the idea is that explanations of ruling class behavior that rest on understanding it as "A big club (and you aren't in it)" fundamentally misunderstand capitalism. While there are heirs and royalty and so on, it isn't blood relations or even group affiliation that makes someone a member of the ruling class or not. It is capital and capital alone. If you have it, you are the ruling class. If you don't, you fucken aren't. Formal antisemitism is named so because political efforts to thwart "globalists" and "foreign capital" almost inevitably lead to identifying Jewish people as the "wrong sort of capitalists" (nevermind that Jewish people are mostly workers, like every other ethnic or religious group on Earth). Instead of attacking the structure of ownership of capital itself, formal antisemitism on the left goes for easy, stupid targets, who mostly are regular people. There is a lengthy history of this, but sooner or later, the people fighting "corruption at the top" are soon fighting "Stonemasons" and are then a hair away from calling for killing Jewish people outright.

And it is certainly the case that describing the situation in Israel/Palestine as straightforwardly "colonial" allows radical, idpol-oriented liberals to displace their anxieties about living in a racist country on to a place they can pretend is more "black and white". But there are millions of Jewish Israelis, and no solution to the situation that suggests all these people simply "go back to where they came from" is in any way a serious answer to the question of peace. Antisemitism undoubtedly helps many of these people avoid consideration of this problem, straightforwardly identifying Jewish people as "the wrong sort of whites"--unlike you, nice progressive, radicals (almost universally cultural wasps).

But all of these paranoid explanations for the opposition to Israel do not help make sense of support for Palestinians. If there's one thing I've learned about antisemitism during the War on Terror, it's that it sure as hell doesn't uphold Arabs or Muslims as somehow better.

If on October 8th, people could seriously regurgitate War on Terror propaganda that suggests you can bomb Muslims into adopting western values, then it seems extremely suspect to suggest that those same people suddenly switched sides because of some deeper prejudice against Jewish people.

Another set of paranoid explanations focus on the shifting of power in the region, and more globally. Iran and the US have greater interest in cooling relations that have almost reached hot war in recent years. The US has been cozy with Saudi Arabia for many years, putting the Saudi leadership in a very uncomfortable position with regard to regional sentiment regarding Israel. Perhaps China is using "digital fentanyl" (tiktok) to coordinate with Saudia Arabia to shift attention away from some more complex set of machinations. Maybe Iran and the US are using Palestine to make a more lasting stability possible. Such basically nonsensical, geopolitically contradictory explanations inevitably lead back to formal antisemitism. For who is coordinating a complete reversal of official governmental positions but some secret conspiracy?

What remains after these various paranoid explanations have been dealt with is something very simple: the images.

Faster than ever before, images of death, destruction, and despair can circulate globally. In only a month, I have seen at least dozens, if not scores of images of Palestinians in abject desperation. In a time of information warfare, one would think that if the Israeli state, or even regular Israeli citizens had imagery that could mirror what is coming out of Gaza, it would be everywhere. How do I know? Because the same imagery out of Gaza is circulating on every social media platform.

Arguably images of the police murder of Black Americans was one of the most important and sustaining aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement. Even the visible caskets coming home from Vietnam in the 60s and 70s represented a serious threat to US intervention there.

I would put to those people of serious intellectual intention the question in this way: What if the imagery and reportage coming from international observers in Gaza is real?

Might people be believing the evidence of their eyes?

#israel #palestine #i/p conflict #israel/palestine #antisemitism #formal antisemitism #marxism #global politics #islamophobia #zionism #lookingfornoonat2pm

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