"The calamitous turning point of Israel's political culture occurred when the Zionist movement was taken over by the Russian political sect, particularly those from the Second Aliya (the 1904-1914 wave of Jewish immigration to #Palestine). Russian culture possesses noble aspects and achieved intellectual and cultural summits. But at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th, Russia underwent dramatic political upheavals that engendered a brutal political culture that scorned tolerance and enlightenment."

by Ofri Ilany: https://archive.ph/DhflH#selection-873.0-873.527 via @oatmeal @israel @histodons 🧶

#settlers #Bolshevism #socialism #Revolution #RussianJews #Zionism #Revisionism #Revisionists #supremacy #RussianSupremacy #Russia #Ukraine #nationalism #ethnicCleansing #racism #coloniality #NeverAgain #rightToExist #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #colonialism #Aliyah #Russians #Mapai #Labour #LabourParty #JewishState #israel #immigration #immigrants #MittelEuropa #PaleOfSettlement #history #Kibbutz #Kibbutzim #expansionism

The Homeless Have No Rights

The homeless are a class apart, out American untouchables. It goes without saying that in America the homeless have no right to shelter. They also have no

CounterPunch.org

Watch a conversation with Diana Buttu (a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and a former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization) about the support of the United States to the israeli escalations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asETBWThM0g

(with Spanish subtitles)

#supremacy #dehumanization #USWars #war #nationalism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #racism #coloniality #politics #propaganda #rightToExist #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #colonialism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #MiddleEast #imperialism #ideology #USA #USPol #DianaButtu #GenocideJoe #Zionism #stateViolence #islamophobia #ongoingNakba #USIsrael #escalations

Lessons from GAZA: What Have We Learned? With DIANA BUTTU.

YouTube

#Antisemitism must be vigorously challenged as a pillar of Eurocentric white supremacy.
#Zionism is a specific political ideology and form of ethnonationalism that drove the establishment of the state of Israel and maintains the illegal occupation of Palestine.

"The primary goal of the IHRA definition is not to fight antisemitism or to protect Jewish communities from racist attacks, predominantly carried out by white supremacists; it is a mechanism to suppress advocacy for Palestinian rights. Of the definition’s 11 examples, seven deem criticism of Israel or Zionism to be antisemitic."

Harsha Walia wrote an excellent primer on deliberate #conflation: https://monitormag.ca/articles/colonialism-racism-and-the-ihra/ via @KarenWyld

#IHRA #philoSemitism #nationalism #ethnicCleansing #racism #coloniality #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #censorship #NeverAgain #reputation #rightToExist #trauma #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #CanadaIsrael #colonialism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Canada #Toronto #schools #HarshaWalia

Colonialism, racism and the IHRA

In June 2024, after years of advocacy from Palestinian and Jewish families, the Toronto District School Board voted to include anti-Palestinian racism as part of its Combating Hate and Racism strategy. While many people saw this as long overdue, a number of pro-Israeli organizations almost…

The Monitor

"Beautiful British Columbia" 🤔 😧

Coolers seized f. Vancouver encampment during heat wave
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/coolers-seized-from-vancouver-encampment-during-heat-wave-1.6958919

* Rangers seized 2 coolers from person living in a tent in Vancouver's CRAB Park as heat wave scorched city
* video posted by advocacy group Stop the Sweeps showed incident unfolding
* decried move as "cartoonish villainy" while a heat warning was in effect

We're just coming off this heat today (Wed): still v. warm

#Canada #Vancouver #homelessness #RightToExist #heartless #poverty

Coolers seized from Vancouver encampment during heat wave

Rangers seized two coolers from a person living in a tent in Vancouver's CRAB Park Tuesday as a heat wave scorched the city, the park board has confirmed.

British Columbia

In Our Palestine Question, Geoffrey Levin shows how American Jewish critics of Israel were dislodged from Jewish institutions in the decades following the state’s formation. ‘The question of the Arab refugees is a moral issue which rises above diplomacy,’ William Zukerman, the editor of the Jewish Newsletter, wrote in 1950. ‘The land now called Israel belongs to the Arab Refugees no less than to any Israeli. They have lived on that soil and worked on it… for twelve hundred years… The fact that they fled in panic is no excuse for depriving them of their homes.’ Under Israeli pressure, Zukerman lost his job as a New York correspondent for the London-based Jewish Chronicle. Arthur Lourie, the Israeli consul general in New York, exulted in his firing: ‘a real MITZVAH’.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n12/adam-shatz/israel-s-descent

#conflation #rightToExist #nationalism #trauma #nyc #Zionism #coloniality #JewishSupremacy #israel #manliness #genocide #LRB #colonialism #Jewish #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #israelism #diaspora

Adam Shatz · Israel’s Descent

Eight months after 7 October, Palestine remains in the grip, and at the mercy, of a furious, vengeful Jewish state, ever...

London Review of Books

"At a talk in Brooklyn [in 1985, Primo] Levi, asked for his opinion on Middle East politics, started to say that ‘Israel was a mistake in historical terms.’ An uproar ensued, and the moderator had to halt the meeting."

Pankaj Mishra in #LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza

#rightToExist #nationalism #trauma #Brooklyn #Zionism #coloniality #JewishSupremacy #israel #colorLine #ElieWiesel #Holocaust #PrimoLevi #manliness #armsTrade #brutalization #violence #genocide #genocideJoe #Germany #Shoah #colonialism #terrorism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #philoSemitism

Pankaj Mishra · The Shoah after Gaza

Memories of Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and...

London Review of Books

"Palestine, as George Orwell pointed out in 1945, is a ‘colour issue’, and this is the way it was inevitably seen by Gandhi, who pleaded with Zionist leaders not to resort to terrorism against Arabs using Western arms".

Pankaj Mishra in #LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza

#rightToExist #nationalism #trauma #raceMaking #proZionism #Zionism #coloniality #JewishSupremacy #israel #colorLine #Modi #manliness #armsTrade #brutalization #violence #genocide #genocideJoe #Germany #Shoah #colonialism #terrorism

Pankaj Mishra · The Shoah after Gaza

Memories of Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and...

London Review of Books

⬆️ @me_the_fl00f

>>>> but they have #RightToExist next to #Mastodon

>> Yes, as far away as possible.

You see, that is why I alluded to this thread being reminiscent of #MiddleEast political history of last ~150 years in a nutshell ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111596911345981437

When people can’t countenance competition and conflate that with #existentialThreat, nothing good comes out of it.

There will ALWAYS be competition. We need to outcompete, or we need to go home 🙂

@jens @Bam @siderea