JC vs SVT.

Thunberg interviewed in Aftonbladet October 15th about IDF torturing her and others in the GSF.

Israel’s ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Daniel Meron, called the report “scandalous” and “fake”, saying it had been authored by “Hamas proxies”.

Whuh? It’s facts. Their previous attempts have been about arguing definitions or questioning the intent clause or arguing against univernality but this latest deflection is a very weird spin on things. Ad hominem and vague claims of fakery and alternative facts.

Alexandra Loonin skriver.

Att delar av vänstern ser uppmärksammandet av antisemitism som ett stöd för Israel är lika allvarligt. Det inte bara alienerar judar – det försvagar också analysen av den högerextrema, vilt rusande samhällsutveckling vi befinner oss i.

Från i våras.

More than a thousand killed in Iran 😔 by IDF. No-one supports this except for our corrupt politicians 💔

Daniel May writing in Jewish Currents.

Yet if support for Israel is simply part of what it means to be Jewish, and anti-Zionism is tantamount to antisemitism, then why should anyone—whether a student activist, congressional lobbyist, or murderous loner—be expected to make a distinction between Zionism and Judaism that the leaders of the Jewish community refuse to make themselves?

He means this question rhetorically but it’s absolutely not okay. No matter how much some pundits want to equate them, it is the responsibility of every thinking human to fully grok that Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir does not speak for everyone.

Reuters.

Israel is shutting its embassies around the world and has urged citizens to stay alert and not display Jewish or Israeli symbols in public places

The antisemitism is coming from inside the house 😰

MSF.

We are witnessing in real time the destruction and forced displacement of the entire population

I am not saying this is enough or trying to minimize the damage done by IDF or ignore any of the seven myriad lives already lost to murder in the name of war. Maybe many times that, indirectly.

I can’t forget that.

Partners report that since the start of the ceasefire, more than 1.5 million people have received food parcels across Gaza. The World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed food parcels, hot meals and cash to more than 860,000 people since the ceasefire took effect. As community kitchens open in new areas, partners are providing more meals.

Yes!! A million were on the brink of dying and still are but for now🐝 wow.

Also yesterday, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) completed the transfer of a fully equipped field hospital to Gaza that will provide surgery, neonatal care, intensive care, radiology and emergency services. On Saturday, PRCS also resumed medical services at its primary health care clinic in Rafah.

They’re going to continue the attacks after the six weeks ceasefire.

😭💔

Det finns en sån grundförutsättning bland den här rapporteringen att “vi”, vi kan förstå nyans, vi har rätt att använda alla möjliga tankar och uttryck och äldre texter för vi menar ju bara… Vi har ju en nyanserad… Medan “dom”, dom måste hålla sig helt på mattan. Allt som ens kan misstolkas som… ska dom hålla sig långt borta från.

Apparently there are plenty of denialists about this online; outright liars if they say that the UN report says the opposite of what it actually does say. Get better news sources, folks.

And people think it’s weird that students are protesting.

I love it when JC bashes the fash & paleos.

Four years after police cleared the Occupy encampments, Donald Trump’s MAGA movement would transpose the movement’s polemics against ruthless financial exploitation and unaccountable elites into the conspiracy-soaked register of white grievance and Middle American rage. As we build the movement for justice in Palestine, progressives must remain wary, not only of unwelcome bedfellows, but also of our message being co-opted by forces opposed to the collective liberation we seek.

the English occupation

Brutal

Snopes.

But the video actually showed the opposite — Palestinians evacuating in a southerly direction toward Rafah in November 2023.

No!

It’s a curious accident of human nature that strawdoll tactics are so popular rhetorically since they are really, really bad for convincing people. They’re good at preaching to the choir and riling up the base, which is what contributes to their popularity; “manufacturing outrage”, but when people see through the strawdoll claims, that can undermine the credibility of your entire case and send them running right into the waiting arms of the other side, and when that other side truly is so much worse than yours, that’s a disaster.

People on the fence are especially vulnerable to this. They’ve seen some of the other side’s argument and now they come to hear you out. They see you saying things about the other side that doesn’t mesh with what they’ve heard, with how the other side has originally presented itself, and they conclude that you’re exaggerating or even lying, especially if that other side isn’t presenting itself that honestly.