@todrobbins oh great rec, thanks! '

@Heidentweet I agree. What I meant was that I used to subscribe to this idea that this was overcompensation, but I don't anymore

22,355 Israeli military aircraft have violated Lebanese airspace since 2007. Just think of how much money the Israelis have spent - including American tax money - for the sole purpose of terrorizing an entire nation for nearly two decades. Just because they can. https://www.airpressure.info/

German institutions have evidently given themselves the permission to decide what counts as antisemitism, even if, or maybe *especially* if, it means silencing Jews who are pro-Palestine. Ghassan Hage, by contrast, is an easy target for them, yet another Arab and/or Muslim they get rid of.

One of the many truths being exposed by Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians is the absolute commitment of Germany - as a state and represented by most of the country's institutions - to white supremacy, at the expense of virtually everything else.

The hegemonic logic right now in Germany is that Jews aren't real people with individual aspirations and disagreements and qualities and faults, like any other humans. They very clearly see their mission to protect Israel's genocide at all costs, even as it makes them look racist af.

I don't even see this anymore as Germans overcompensating for their historical guilt. I see this as Germans reaffirming their absolute commitment to a white supremacist project, one which is *inherently* antisemitic and racist, and using their own genocidal legacy as their excuse to do so.

The Max Plank Society starts off by recognizing that Dr Hage is renowned for academic excellence, and then proceed by saying that there's no space for racism and antisemitism in their space, implying that Dr Hage was racist or antisemitic. He is not. As for Germany, it absolutely is.

As so many have pointed out, Jews in Germany are actually being disproportionately targeted by German censors in the name of 'fighting anti-semitism'. The irony would be hilarious if it weren't so reckless and dangerous.

The amount of Arabs, Muslims, Jews, and so many PoCs discriminated against by German institutions since October 2023 can only lead a reasonable observer to conclude that 'educated' German society, once again, is engaging in a barely concealed white supremacist project. The latest example is the Max Plank Society firing renowned Lebanese-Australian academic Dr Ghassan Hage for his support of Palestinian freedom. https://www.mpg.de/21510445/statement-ghassan-hage

From the archive:

"These people who have been causing so much damage by engaging in disinformation online, consciously or unconsciously, will lose. But they take up so much space that the rest of us (activists, humanitarians, refugees, people who oppose atrocities) have to stay on the defensive, spending so much time debunking."

This is an interview (with @joey) from 2019. It's 2024 and "left" trolls are still at it, even on Mastodon. Stamp out entryism! #NoPasarán

https://antidotezine.com/2019/12/12/earth-to-leftists/

We just put out our transcribed zine of the chat with @joey of #thefirethesetimes on the ongoing US-enabled genocide of Palestinians.
Check it out, sample, print & share the content at https://tfsr.wtf/zines/#January2024

Industry lobbying kills, case study 1314512: the commercial milk formula industry has led to a sharp decline in breastfeeding (less than half of babies today) while generating over 50 billion USDs a year, with disastrous health consequences.

https://www.thelancet.com/series/Breastfeeding-2023

(tbc, this does not mean breastfeeding is the only way or that formula is inherently bad - what is bad is the effects of industry lobbying interfering in science)

Today I'm grateful for South Africa. The case presented by the RSA reps at the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza is very well-done.

The evidence is incontrovertible. Israel has committed genocide genocide in Gaza, and continues to do so.

10 years ago today that Razan Zeitouneh, Samira Al-Khalil, Nazem Hamadi and Wael Hamada were abducted in Douma.
They are always in my thoughts.
#Douma4

The Biden Admin are unrepentant, genocidal warmongers. #CeaseFireNOW #FreePalestine

I won't stop talking about how irrational Germany's politics of memory are. It's the stuff of nightmares. It actually engages in antisemitism and Holocaust relativism while ostensibly set up to oppose them.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust

Banner at today's March for Palestine London 👊
#Palestine #Israel #Ceasefire

The US once again vetoed against a ceasefire in Gaza and human rights 'leaders' still met with Blinken. They should have all boycotted. #ceasefirenow