Nationwide there are emergency protests to decry the slaughter of innocent civilians in Rafah last night.
In NYC protesters are marching in the streets against police orders. The crowds are so big the cops are making arrests but it has done little to slow tonights demo.
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Earlier in the day the NYPD seized more than a half-dozen cars that were slowing traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. Despite take several cars, the protest persisted.
📸 NYPD - via twitter.
At the march tonight they are seeing a ton of arrests, but the crowd remains nimble and energized.
The crowd just keeps moving after most arrests, leaving the NYPD to scramble to catch up again.
Peep the road sign 🇵🇸 😍
The crowd was able to evade the cops and split in multiple directions and reformed. Be still my heart 🖤 ✊🏿
This crowd has a great energy!
Tonights NYC march was put on by Within Our Lifetime (WOL)
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'genocide is good' ass-looking ass
Do you buy the US's self-defense arguments regarding the 'War on Terror'? The 'pre-emptive strike' on Iraq in 03? Do twelve hundred civs buy the deaths of more than twenty thousand?
The UN sanctioned the founding of Israel. It is not by any measure an 'anti-Israel' institution, especially given the roles played by Israel-supporting states in senior membership and leadership. Don't play.
Nor do I really care what the ICJ says. Law is only a measure of power.
Frankly, the only question before anyone is this: is ethnic cleansing wrong or is it perfectly justifiable?
cool cool cool cool cool an ethnic cleansing for an ethnic cleansing leaves the whole world cleaner, I guess.
Note that you didn't answer my questions. Any of them. Do so at your nearest convenience.
The UN supports Israeli statehood, which is in fact the standing UN decision to right historical wrongs. The Farhud and its contemporaries created the problem the same states that did them bitch about, but that doesn't mean one ethnicity gets to militarily oust people and bulldoze their homes without condemnation.
The Spanish should be paying reparations for the expulsion. The French the same. The English the same. Germany and Poland and Hungary will never be done atoning for their crimes.
What does that have to do with people whose whole lives have seen them never have the power to do anything except fire bottle rockets, though?
Re: ethnic cleansing:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-slams-irresponsible-calls-by-smotrich-and-ben-gvir-for-emigration-of-gazans/
@caffetiel @nullagent About the UN, I assure you it has an anti Israel bias. It is plain as day. All you have to do is count. Just count the number of resolutions. Pick a random meeting of the UN from a random year and check what percentage of the resolutions mention Israel in a condemnatory tone.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/regular-sessions/session31/list-reports
In this random session, reports 40 through 44 condemn Israel. As does 73. Try searching for Russia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Yemen on that page.
How many kids are firing off rockets under the government that was propped up by Likud's coalition?
Intentionally denying stability to Palestine creates violence. Are you going to defend yourself against Netanyahu's family, too? Extended family? Neighbors?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
Created? You really aren't engaging with any degree of honesty, are you?
You denied ethnic cleansing until you couldn't, at which point you stopped responding at all. You're currently undoing all the normalizing of relations between Israel and surrounding Muslim states, and of course that's not your fault, is it? The Houthis didn't do shit about Israel until now but apparently we should condemn them not for being fascists but for responding to an explicit genocide.
Fuck you. I'm out.
@caffetiel @nullagent The UN passed (and later rescinded) the "Zionism is racism" declaration, without declaring national pride in any other nation as racism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_3379
Much of the anti-Israel sentiment which you and these protestors throw around is verbatim from some of this anti-Israel agitation at the UN.
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