Say no to authoritarianism, say yes to socialism. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Everyone deserves Human Rights
It’s a more hardened version of the signal app from my understanding. The github goes into more detail about that. There is also a version where you can get push notifications without using google play services. If using signal, I don’t see a reason not to use it through molly instead imo
SimpleX is I different one that’s more privacy focused, it doesn’t use phone numbers for signup. Not sure how the chat features compare
That’s relatively benign when compared the military tech Israel markets and exports abroad after testing on the Palestinian civilian population.
Bad and worth condemning, yes. Nonetheless significantly better than the tech they could have gotten from Israel, who’s tech is far more violent and invasive on the civilian population
He can’t. Even going through what MBFC claims is misinformation by mondoweiss only further reinforces how Zionist the MBFC site is and how little they care about genuine fact checking.
If they were actually antisemitic, why would prominent Jewish and Israeli anti-zionist historians, such as Ilan Pappe, have interviews and articles on the site? They wouldn’t. Of course JordanLund also bans emancipatory slogans such as “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as well. They apply more credibility to liberal Zionists than the victims of Zionism’s ethnic cleansing campaigns.
A lot of Americans think ‘free trade’ means all countries involved are on an equal footing. That’s what it should mean, and what the term looks like when taken at face value. Most don’t recognize that ‘free trade’ as the US uses it means free for corporations to exploit the global south through the use of Neo-colonialism. It means coercing the global south to privatize their natural resources, become indebted in the process, and be forced to let foreign corporations control and exploit the local labor force down to wage slavery. Crippling their economies as western corporations maximize profit and resource extraction at the expense of the local government and population.
As far as I can tell when she served she only helped train the troops who were committing the war crimes on-the-ground.
She’s also been steadfast in her support for Israel, promoting the propaganda about the mass systematic rapes by Hamas on Oct 7th which no evidence of has come to light in over a year. While also having nothing to say about the systemic torture and rapes of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, which include the torture and sexual assault of Palestinian children, and silence about the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. She served the IDF for 2 years and is still a steadfast supporter. That shows she is aware of the war crimes the IDF commits and supports them. Otherwise she would be on Breaking the Silence.
https://forward.com/culture/film-tv/706699/gal-gadot-snow-white-israeli-palestinian-conflict/
Her going on actual raids in Lebanon or piloting the bombs or air strikes is not a requirement for people to boycott or Lebanon to ban the movie.
If people in the 1930-40s boycotted a movie featuring a soldier that served in Nazi Germany (because of the acts of Nazi Germany), despite that soldier not seeing action, that would be just as justified. Especially if that soldier still supported Nazi Germany.
They either have the choice of deferring and spending 1-2 months in jail, or serving and committing crimes against humanity.
I agree framing it as ‘israeli mercenaries’ is disingenuous, although the PA police do work under the Israeli military. I also agree that funding for humanitarian aid and social services is critical, although this system is designed to utilize that aid at the expense of Palestinian emancipation.
The largest part of the PA’s budget goes towards the police force (that work directly under the Israeli military), which is responsible not for protecting Palestinians from Israeli settler violence, but instead to violently repress any Palestinian resistance against Israeli settler colonialist violence.
Additionally, control over tax revenue (which is the vast majority of the PA revenue) is not the only way Israel controls the economy of the West Bank. They also keep part of the revenue from VATs and income tax, taken out before the tax revenue they also withhold. As Israel controls all aspects of imports, exports, land, and resources in the West Bank (including Area A); they restrict many critical supplies for development, demolish Palestinian buildings and restrict their land use, and implement closures of exports at will. All this leads to a deficit for the PA even after international aid. Much of which is also conditional and focused on increasing security, at the expense of public development, as the rest goes to immediate aid. Of which, is still dramatically below what’s needed.
The situation of the West Bank has been created in such a way that Israel is able to continue it’s settler Colonialism unabated by local resistance, which is cracked down on by the PA. While international aid to the PA is utilized primarily to continue the suppression of resistance, while providing less aid than what’s needed due to the occupation and stifling public development. It’s made the West Bank entirely dependent on international aid and Israel for survival, while also propping up the continued repression of resistance and erosion of 3 two-state solution. For all intents and purposes, the PA is an extension of Israeli occupation. Israel is in complete control, they have military domination over the entirety of the West Bank.
They vast majority of the major suppliers of aid to the PA are in collaboration and support of Israel and the US. Many of the western countries providing aid support Israel and don’t even recognize Palestine. Many of the Middle Eastern countries have a long history of collaborating with Israel’s and the US’ interests for their own financial gain.
I tried to cross reference those aspects discussed above, both with Western and Middle Eastern sources, so it’s difficult to link to each point as most articles discuss a multitude of them
Definitely, I agree with that. I’m also not supportive of changing article titles, at least when it comes to politics, additional context should be provided in the post or comments as needed.
It looks like that rule doesn’t apply to that .ml community, which I personally don’t agree with. I think it’s more transparent to show how it’s reported and point out, with sources, if anything is being reported disingenuously
They resisted against the brutal Saudi puppet government, and have been resisting genocide ever since.
Guterres put the crisis in stark perspective, emphasizing the near complete lack of security for the Yemeni people. More than 22 million people out of a total population of 28 million are in need of humanitarian aid and protection. Eighteen million people lack reliable access to food; 8.4 million people “do not know how they will obtain their next meal.”
As of February 2018, according to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the coalition had killed 6,000 people in airstrikes and wounded nearly 10,000 more.
Yet, according to the OHCHR report, these counts are conservative. Tens of thousands of Yemenis have also died from causes related to the war. According to Save the Children, an estimated 85,000 children under five may have died since 2015, with more than 50,000 child deaths in 2017 alone from hunger and related causes.
Besides Saudi Arabia, the coalition attacking Yemen includes the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan, Kuwait and Bahrain. Qatar was part of the coalition but is no longer.
Based on the information available to it using open sources, YDP reports that two-thirds of the coalition’s bombing attacks have been against non-military and unknown targets. The coalition isn’t accidentally attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure – it’s doing it deliberately.
The air and naval blockade, in effect since March 2015, “is essentially using the threat of starvation as a bargaining tool and an instrument of war,” according to the UN panel of experts on Yemen.
The coalition’s genocide in Yemen would not be possible without the complicity of the U.S. This has been a bipartisan presidential effort, covering both the Obama and Trump administrations.
U.S. arms are being used to kill Yemenis and destroy their country. In 2016, well after the coalition began its genocidal assault on Yemen, four of the top five recipients of U.S. arms sales were members of the coalition.
The U.S. has also provided the coalition with logistical support, including mid-air refueling, targeting advice and support, intelligence, expedited munitions resupply and maintenance.
The ‘Curse upon the Jews’ part of the slogan is completely unacceptable, any conflation of Zionism and Judaism is. There are plenty of things the Houthis do that is also completely unacceptable, utilizing child soldiers is another major one. There are plenty of things they deserve to be criticized on, and human rights organizations do a great job documenting and communicating those atrocities.
This isn’t about good guys or bad guys. This is about an entire population subjected to a genocide. There are plenty of reasons to not like the Houthis, but that doesn’t change the reality that they only exist as a resistance to the ongoing genocide. The point isn’t that the Houthis are good, it’s that the genocide, facilitated by the US and our Ally Saudi Arabia, is significantly worse by multiple magnitudes.
The root cause of the problem is still the genocide, that’s a much bigger concern, especially to the people of Yemen, than to stop or reform the Houthis themselves. They can only be addressed in a realistic way, by the people of Yemen, once the genocide ends.
The PA creates the appearance of Palestinian autonomy, but in fact, much like the governments of the Bantustans of apartheid South Africa, it is simply an extension of the colonial state, a tool of counterinsurgency that is highly effective for the repression of local rebellions, because it makes the native population police itself. Fatah, which was a revolutionary movement in the early days of the armed struggle, is now mostly contained by the PA.
The Palestinian Authority: A Tool of Israeli Counterinsurgency - Adi Callai
Israel’s stabilization strategy, inspired by modern counterinsurgency doctrine, has rested on two pillars: the employment of pacification measures to co-opt Palestinians and reliance on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to police its population on Israel’s behalf. However, many Palestinians are now fighting back against this approach, while the PA’s eroding legitimacy has only hardened the population’s refusal to accept its restrictive methods.
It is presented here as it has been perceived by the Israeli policymakers and bureaucrats down the years. For them the PA was an integral and crucial component in the open-air prison model suggested in the 1990s, and one which the pragmatic elite of Israel still hopes to instate in the West Bank, at least in the near future.
In appearance, the PA has all the trappings of a state, with ministries and a civil service, but Israel wields the real power, turning the tap on tax revenue, and controlling access to the shrinking territories – a status quo often compared with the Bantustans of apartheid-era South Africa.
The PA has actively helped Israel to keep tight control over the Palestinian population. Many perceive the body as a tool of the Israeli security apparatus, its US-trained forces not only targeting those suspected of planning attacks on Israelis, but also arresting union figures, journalists and critics on social media.
Israel relies on this division of the West Bank to foster the fiction that the Palestinian Authority is the entity primarily responsible for administering the life of the majority of Palestinians in the West Bank. In practice, however, Israel still retains control over the entire West Bank and all its residents.
The US is breaking the world order that it created for its benefit after WWII, out of fascism and incompetence. The mask is off, this empire will fall and the violence is only ramping up in the meantime
Free speech is dead in America.
No more 1st amendment. Any speech the administration doesn’t like can now be considered a ‘threat to US foreign policy’
In contrast, neoliberalism is sometimes constructed as an ideological antagonist of both critical theorists and progressive liberal identities. Marxist scholars conceptualize neoliberalism as a particular historical regime of capitalism, more corrosive and iniquitous than the “embedded liberalism” of the post-war era in Europe and the United States. Similarly, socially progressive liberals criticize neoliberalism for subordinating public life to market forces and for displacing the welfare state commitments of the Keynesian era. Some on the political left collapse the distinction between liberalism and neoliberalism, seeing them as simply two ways of ideologically justifying capitalist rule. Conversely, some of those most likely to be identified as neoliberals are motivated by a deep hostility to political liberals, particularly in right-wing political discourses where liberal operates as code for left-liberal, even socialist, values that are opposed to a free market identity.
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An alternative to both neoclassical and Keynesian explanations and solutions for capitalist crises emanates from the Marxian tradition. Its explanation stresses neither what Keynesians focus on (destabilizing maneuvers by self-seeking individual consumers, producers, merchants, and banks facing an inherently uncertain economy and/or possessing asymmetrical information in regard to markets) nor what neoclassicists pinpoint (market-destabilizing concentrations of private power by market participants and/or public power by the state). Rather, Marxian theory pursues the connections between capitalism’s crises and its distinctive class structure (its particular juxtaposition of capitalists appropriating and distributing the surpluses workers produce). We propose to show these connections in the rest of this paper. On that basis, Marxian theory reaches very different conclusions from those of the neoclassical and Keynesian economists. Briefly, durable solutions to capitalist crises require, in the Marxian view, transition to a different class structure. That is because capitalism’s class structure has so systematically and repeatedly contributed to crises in both the regulated and deregulated forms of capitalism. That is why Marxian theory does not share the fundamental conservatism of both neoclassical and Keynesian economics vis-à-vis capitalism.
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If they deport permanent residents without due process, they can deport any citizen without due process. In some cases they already have.
Plus, that being record breaking is fucking laughable.
The subsidies that oil companies receive are in the 6 trillion range as far as I can tell from a quick search.
They are destroying all of our livelyhood, globally, and are not only getting effectively zero consequences, but are getting payed substantially from our own tax dollars to do so.
Hurting Israel’s feelings
Zionism goes against the actual teachings of Judaism, it’s very revisionist. Jewish opposition to Israel is as old as Zionism itself. Hasidic Jewish people, while small in number, are still the largest Anti-zionist group in Israel. Jewish people have been at the forefront of Anti-zionist activism for a long time, including Jewish Voice for Peace. Palestinians too of course.
Zionism uses Judaism as a shield, deflecting criticism against it’s fascist actions as anti-semitic, which in-turn raises the amount of genuine anti-semitism experienced by Jewish people worldwide, due to that false conflation of Judaism and Zionism. That’s why it’s critical to detangle that false conflation.
Adi Callai, an Israeli, does a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized by Zionism during its history.
Benny Morris, who considers the Nakba justified. The criticisms are unfounded. Far more reputable Historians agree with Ilan Pappe and recognize his work as highly credible.
But in an astonishing recent Ha’aretz interview, after summarizing his new research, Morris proceeds to argue for the necessity of ethnic cleansing in 1948. He faults David Ben-Gurion for failing to expel all Arab Israelis, and hints that it may be necessary to finish the job in the future. Though he calls himself a left-wing Zionist, he invokes and praises the fascist Vladimir Jabotinsky in calling for an “iron wall” solution to the current crisis. Referring to Sharon’s Security Wall, he says, “Something like a cage has to be built for them. I know that sounds terrible. It is really cruel. But there is no choice. There is a wild animal there that has to be locked up in one way or another.” He calls the conflict between Israelis and Arabs a struggle between civilization and barbarism, and suggests an analogy frequently drawn by Palestinians, though from the other side of the Winchester: “Even the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians.”
Now if only they’ll be tried and incarcerated for their war crimes. Especially ones with dual citizenship