| politics | Socialist, Marxist |
| politics | Socialist, Marxist |
Israelās war on Gaza isnāt overābut right now, itās turning its sights on the West Bank, where over 40,000 Palestinians have already been forced from their homes. Ethnic cleansing doesnāt pauseāit expands.
Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
The IHRA definition of anti-Semitism is at the heart of the Israel anti-Semitism smear campaign, It is important to trace the definition back to its origins in Tel Aviv in 2004.
The Palestinians BDS campaign is an existential threat to Israel. Israel chose to fight BDS with a smear campaign.
The smear campaign is 20 years old.
#IsraeliSmear
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-lobby-uses-discredited-anti-semitism-definition-muzzle-debate/11716
The Israeli Ministry for Strategic Affairs is shifting its focus from fighting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), to fighting deligitimisation. It was initially established in 2006 for Avigdor...
PROPAGANDA
Thinking, Fast and Slow argues we all have 2 ways of thinking:
1. fast, intuitive, emotional
2. slow, deliberative, logical
Propaganda is primevally emotional. It manufactures a mood. It creates an emotional landscape.
Propaganda replaces logic with fallacy. Fallacies look and sound like logic. People think a logical argument has been presented but this is an illusion, it is just a fallacy.
The US is finally giving up on the Gaza Pier. It cost us over $200M and only operated for a total of sixteen days.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-pier-humanitarian-aid-f3e21c072630c0d9cb9498d3a0e27a55
U.S. officials say the pier built by the U.S. military to bring aid to Gaza is being removed due to weather to protect it, and the U.S. is considering not re-installing it unless aid begins flowing out into the population again. While the military has helped deliver desperately needed food through the pier, the vast majority of it is still sitting in the adjacent storage yard because of the difficulty that agencies have had moving it to areas in Gaza where it is most needed, and that storage area is almost full. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military movements.