Sheryl Weikal1d ago

You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, that's true!

There's just one problem.

The US never ratified that treaty.

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@theleftistlawyer the government of the USA of A making up shit as they go along, shoot from the hip, yee haw … dumbasses … doesn’t Israel tell the USA what to do now anyway?
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Show threadMagnus Ahltorp21h ago
@NineStonesClose @theleftistlawyer If you mean ”Israel controls the US”, that’s a classic antisemitic propaganda trope. If you mean ”Trump does what the last person he spoke to said”, that’s probably true.
Show threadNine Stones Close20h ago
@ahltorp @theleftistlawyer antisemitism is often used as an excuse by the uneducated and the politicians to shout down anything said these days against the current genocidal expansionist Israeli state. You maybe need to read some books about what antisemitism actually means.
Show threadMagnus Ahltorp20h ago
@NineStonesClose @theleftistlawyer What I wrote was that it’s a ”classic antisemitic propaganda trope”. It’s dangerously close to what some people are saying that’s actually antisemitic, so please tread carefully.
Show threadMagnus Ahltorp20h ago
@NineStonesClose @theleftistlawyer Example: https://tldr.nettime.org/@rasmusfleischer/116255229245842899
Rasmus Fleischer (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image what the fuck did žižek just claim?

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Show threadNine Stones Close12h ago
@ahltorp @theleftistlawyer yes, it’s an example of a case by a political philosopher who is well known for being provocative and confrontational. Nothing to do with my original comment though. When there is evidence, people can use any label they like, It also doesn’t make it fact. https://www.britannica.com/topic/antisemitism/Nazi-antisemitism-and-the-Holocaust
Antisemitism - Nazi, Holocaust, Persecution | Britannica

Antisemitism - Nazi, Holocaust, Persecution: The storm of antisemitic violence loosed by Nazi Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945 not only reached a terrifying intensity in Germany itself but also inspired anti-Jewish movements elsewhere. Antisemitism was promulgated in France by the Cagoulards (French: “Hooded Men”), in Hungary by the Arrow Cross, in England by the British Union of Fascists, and in the United States by the German-American Bund and the Silver Shirts. In Nazi Germany, antisemitism reached a racial dimension never before experienced. Christianity had sought the conversion of the Jews, and political leaders from Spain to England had sought

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