https://x.com/h_lovatt/status/2096868638032560380

That I really love you guys. ♥️

I don’t know how many times I’ve been called an “”anti semite”” for criticizing Israel and Zionists when it’s the farthest thing from the truth. I’m anti Zionist and anti Israel.

I don’t hate Jewish people. How can I? You guys are my cousins and I consider you closer to me than I consider the Christians close to me. You and I share way more in common than I share with a Christian.

We are People of the Book for a reason. Don’t let Israel’s fascism confuse us and make us hate each other when we should know who the true enemy is.

I have family in Lebanon. They’ve been texting us videos of the bodies they walk past in the street as they flee. They text us the bombs falling in their neighborhood.

I have Palestinian family members who have married into the family.

Every day I’m sick with worry and anger over what is happening and how I’m powerless to stop it.

Thank you for being on the right side of history. Let’s walk hand in hand and hope to see the fall of Israel in our lifetimes.

This is stupid Islamophobia and racism. Why exactly should the mayor of NYC not attend ceremonies about the city's most tragic and memorialized day?

Because he sometimes criticizes Israel and allegedly doesn't condemn the phrase about globalized intifada, which he actually did.

They can't come up with any reason. This isnt about Zionists and some of their bigoted views about Mamdani. This is stupid.

Let's cut to the point. This ridiculous "othering" of Mamdani is fueled by racism and Islamaophobia, and b.s. like this is even made a point of discussion by people who fear their privilege gained by corruption could be undone by Mamdani's movement for democracy.

These talking points to undercut Mamdanj published by people with influence are stupid, pathetic, and they aren't working. The NY Times, CNN, and many Zionist oubkications are trying to push the narrative that Mamdani isnt worthy to commemorate 9/11 by "othering" him. Straight up racism and Islamaphibia.

What's truly disgusting is their desecration of the memorial by exploiting it to spin racialized political narratives.

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/family-members-of-9-11-victims-seek-to-bar-mamdani-from-25th-anniversary-commemoration/

News article:

https://archive.li/5iQx5

In-depth exposé:

https://archive.li/E7xV9

12 Israeli Prison Service guards have now (incident happened in 2023) been charged over the death of Palestinian prisoner Tha'er Abu Assab, a Fatah member who was serving a 25-year sentence for alleged "attacks against Israel" (never specified what exactly; not that it matters).

https://i.imgur.com/DIAaYcT.png

According to the investigation, Abu Assab asked a guard whether there was a ceasefire.

The question was relayed to a commander, who decided to "show" the prisoners that there wasn't one by beating them.

Guards then entered the cell and beat the prisoners, with Abu Assab taking the worst of it. He later died.

https://i.imgur.com/Sovac9Y.png

One guard testified that the commander had told them beforehand that whatever happened that evening was his responsibility and that they should do what he said.

https://i.imgur.com/zvVemns.png

The article notes that it's difficult to catch abuse by Israeli prison guards due to the culture of permissive violence and covering up for one another's crimes.

So the 12 indicted are only being charged for 'negligent homicide'.

https://i.imgur.com/UDmGmUZ.png

But this time, prosecutors had guards' own WhatsApp messages - in which they bragged about it all.

https://i.imgur.com/7oWxC4Q.png

One of them, Oshrit Aliga, had previously been featured in an IPS recruitment ad.

https://i.imgur.com/1GueMFd.png

Shortly after Abu Assab's death, she texted her partner: "Sweetie, here is an update for you, he's dead now," adding that she was "very happy and satisfied" and that "there was a lot of blood and they broke them." She also wrote that the commander "really wanted to break them."

https://i.imgur.com/dvYDccm.png

• See this for better translations

  • The source is a disgraced Israeli-American grad student, but he's the only one providing this additional translation on X.

A month later, talking about another group of Palestinian detainees arriving at the prison, she told a friend that she and the shift were preparing to give them a proper "Shabbat reception."

https://i.imgur.com/HdykLE9.png

Her friend joked about whether her baton was still working, and Aliga replied that it had undergone "a fair number of disinfections."

https://i.imgur.com/zeQNFec.png

She then bragged about beating prisoners and said that if she had not "cracked one of his kidneys," she did not consider the job done.

https://i.imgur.com/vuo0V7x.png

This reminds me of whenever I see people talk about anonymous online microaggressions like someone sarcastically saying, "G-d promised them the land 3,000 years ago."

I understand how that can be irritating and even distressing as it builds up - but you can also find actual analogues of that rhetoric being used by Israelis in circumstances involving real violence/abuse/criminality.

Think of that settler standing on a Palestinian family's home and saying, "G-d promised it [Palestine] to me."

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5GeAjH12A0I

Or Yair Lapid's religious Zionist comments, conveying that Israel has divine mandate to expand its borders.

• JOC - Israeli 'opposition leader' Yair Lapid: "I support anything that will allow the Jews [to have] a big, vast strong land.[...]Zionism is based on the bible, our mandate over the land of Israel is biblical.[...]I believe that our ownership deed over the land of lsrael is the bible."

Testimony by guards described violence against Palestinian prisoners as routine and that senior officials knew & approved of it.

https://i.imgur.com/CEf8aCc.png

During questioning, the commander initially denied what happened and reportedly asked the investigator, "How do you know they didn't do it to themselves?"

https://i.imgur.com/FhLuLyH.png

This case/investigation also has a Shawshank-style element of institutional corruption.

Abu Assab reportedly had a working relationship with prison management and served as a spokesman or point of contact for his cell.

https://i.imgur.com/yVzJz7Z.png

He was also being prosecuted for allegedly bribing a guard to smuggle in phones and an e-cigarette.

According to Haaretz, citing Kan, he had threatened during interrogation to expose similar arrangements involving other prison guards.

His death ended that prosecution, and with it the possibility that he could implicate other IPS personnel.

Given everything else revealed in this investigation, it is very convenient for the prison management that he is now dead.

https://x.com/nlyonne/status/2096845311700603362

Netanyahu’s government is guilty of settler colonialism and genocide. With the Knesset elections coming up, is the colony’s opposition the solution? Let’s take a look at key figures.

Neftali Bennet, leader of the “Bennett 2026” Party. He describes himself as “more right-wing than Netanyahu”. He said that Gaza’s children “are not children but terrorists trying to kill our children” and called in 2023 for a total blockade on Gaza. He was head of an umbrella organization of Jewish settlements called the Yesha Council, and supports the annexation of the West Bank.

Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the “Yashar” Party. He speaks of “equal rights” within the colony. He was chief of the staff of the colony’s occupation army and led ethnic razing operations in the West Bank. He supported the massive bombing of infrastructure in Beirut as a means of deterrence against the Lebanese resistance, and applied the same in Gaza as part of the “War Cabinet”.

Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the “Yisrael Beiteinu” Party. He spoke of a two-state “solution” on the basis of the ethnic razing of Palestinians with Israeli citizenship from 1948-occupied Palestine to areas under the “Palestinian Authority”. He supports the colony’s focus on “preemptive” military action and claimed that there are “no innocents in Gaza”.

Yair Golan, leader of the “Democrats” Party. He speaks of a two-state “solution”. He criticized the colony’s “killing babies in Gaza” but not the genocide itself. He says the colony’s army is “an occupying military” yet believes it is “justified”. He served as an officer in the occupation army which he believes is “a moral army that protects human dignity”.

Yair Lapid, leader of the “Yesh Atid” Party. He speaks of a two-state “solution”. He said that the media should present “only the Israeli side” as “presenting both sides would serve Hamas”. He supports annexation of occupied Syrian territory. He also expressed support of “Greater Israel”, which he defined as expanding the colony’s borders “as much as possible”.

Alon-Lee Green, co-leader of the “Makom Lekulanu” Party. He speaks of a two-state “solution” and “equal rights” within the colony. He supports “radical empathy” and spoke of occupation soldiers killed by the Palestinian resistance as “innocent victims”. His Party does not mention the right of return and has stated it will support the candidate “best poised to oust Netanyahu”—i.e. one of the above.

The above paints a picture of the colony’s opposition, clearly showing it opposes Netanyahu, not settler colonialism. One need not delve into that many details, however. Zionism is, by definition, the support of the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. One’s support of Zionism is enough to make one guilty, regardless of one’s statements regarding solutions, rights or peace.

The truth is clear: The problem is not the Netanyahu government for the solution to be a different government. The problem is the genocidal settler-colonial state of Israel and the solution is its dismantling and the establishment of its antithesis: One democratic Palestinian state, for all its citizens, from the river to the sea.

Just saw this on FB. I understand many people don't want to click on FB links, so the short version is that due to obliterating Gaza's water treatment infrastructure, almost all of Israel's desalination plants are now choking on what is very likely toxic algae bloom caused by said bombing.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1490347499794591&set=pcb.1490347639794577

So really the headline should read 'Gaza is paying the price of destruction, Israel is 'collateral damage'.

Of course what I hate most about this news is that it's yet another reminder of the horrific cost of this war on an entire population. Israel's problems are non-trivial, but nothing in comparison to what it must be like to live among two million people without a functioning sewerage system.

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To be clear, I don't want anyone to suffer, Palestinian or Israeli. No one should be forced to drink polluted water. But what this article also suggests to me is that Israel is fundamentally unsustainable.

They can't truck in water for 10 million people. And even if they could, they'd need more land borders with friendly countries with which to do it. Israel has so alienated all of its neighbours, the only ones it can do business with do so only because they are American puppets.

If you actually asked the people of Egypt and Jordan what they think, I feel pretty sure they would not align with those country's foreign policies towards Israel.

Okay I'm kinda waffling now. I guess where I'm going is that, big picture, the future for Israel as an apartheid state is not good. They may have overwhelming military might, but even the toughest soldiers and West Bank settlers need water.

For non-Jews like me, we are obviously not privy to the nuances of discussions occurring on your end. Is any serious dialog happening and swaying pro-zionist beliefs away from years of programming?

"No foreign secretary this century has ever successfully challenged either the power of the White House or pressure from Israel – let alone both at once. 

Miliband is stepping out of line. Moreover, he is doing so against strident opposition from significant sections of the British media. In short, Miliband has torn up the script on British foreign policy."

So I know there is copious scepticism about Milliband and Labour in general, for very good reason. It is the party that created the Zionist state. One might also say that sanctioning those who do business with settlements doesn't go far enough.

However, it has also been noted that the Israeli economy is inextricably linked to the settlements - that if enforced, sanctions do in fact have a broader impact, including on British businesses that trade with the Zionist state. That includes law firms, weapons manufacturers, banks and insurers (a particularly large impact on shipping).

The big question remains whether these sanctions survive reality. The article outlines the dilemma, which is that the UK is a junior partner to the US and the US has many levers it can pull.

Of course Matt Yglesias sucks, but the article is a great example of the discourse between liberal Zionism and anti-Zionism that has continued to play out post-10.7. Liberal Zionism is the most popular form of the ideology outside of the settler colony, and I believe that combating it is one of our most important tasks as anti-Zionist Jews.

Apparently Qatar is secretly funding universities to make them anti-Israel. I have some questions about the methodology here.

If they don't like what he says dont listen. If they dont want to see him on a concert tour, then dont attend his concert. If they dont like the criticism, maybe dont commit or aid in committing war crimes.​

Anyone in that audience knows Macklemore advocates for Palestine and paid to see it! Rabid Zionists dont speak for Macklemore's fans. Dumb argument.

This is stupid. Macklemore is an individual who has a right to say political things and speak up when his conscience is sparked. These people dont like that he says stuff. Boo hoo.

Is this something new: a petition from the public the lobby puts out. Is this a sign their backdoor influence is weakening. ​i mean usually they have hushed people up without appealing to the public from the inside. To the sane, if Macklemore isn't their cup of tea, they listen to something else. Its insanity to jump into a scene they know nothjng about and invest so hard to silence someone for exercising free speech, part of the brand that is Macklemore. ​​

This petition is pretty sad and desperate. I dont see what a petition will do. If they don't like his performance, just dont watch. There is obviously a large enough group of people that are fans of Macklemore that he is on tour, which means he has a whole network that promote and invests in producing Macklemore the entertainer which includes his advocacy for Palestine as a central component.

This stupid petition is a free promotion sure to enlarge the fanbase! When you try to shut someone down sometimes it does the opposite, ​especially when you are universally despised. Appealing to the public is a dumb thing strategically here for Zionists because Zionism requires a little antisociality.