"The calamitous turning point of Israel's political culture occurred when the Zionist movement was taken over by the Russian political sect, particularly those from the Second Aliya (the 1904-1914 wave of Jewish immigration to #Palestine). Russian culture possesses noble aspects and achieved intellectual and cultural summits. But at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th, Russia underwent dramatic political upheavals that engendered a brutal political culture that scorned tolerance and enlightenment."

by Ofri Ilany: https://archive.ph/DhflH#selection-873.0-873.527 via @oatmeal @israel @histodons 🧶

#settlers #Bolshevism #socialism #Revolution #RussianJews #Zionism #Revisionism #Revisionists #supremacy #RussianSupremacy #Russia #Ukraine #nationalism #ethnicCleansing #racism #coloniality #NeverAgain #rightToExist #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #colonialism #Aliyah #Russians #Mapai #Labour #LabourParty #JewishState #israel #immigration #immigrants #MittelEuropa #PaleOfSettlement #history #Kibbutz #Kibbutzim #expansionism

“Self-defence means not only attacking terrorists but destroying them. When Hamas terrorists hide behind people, behind schools … civilian places lose their protected status because terrorists abuse it,” said Germany's then foreign minister during a parliamentary session marking the anniversary of the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.

by Pauline Ertel: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-germany-former-foreign-minister-failed-gaza-then-got-top-un-job

#Baerbock #AnnalenaBaerbock #Greens #TheGreens #complicity #collusion #connivance #internationalCommunity #decline #warfare #GazaMethod #imperialism #UN #October7 #counterTerrorism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #IHRA

The Guardian shows "the same patterns of systemic bias, deliberate distortion and deceptive underreporting" as other British mainstream media:
https://www.newarab.com/opinion/guardians-gaza-line-atrocious-rest-uk-press 🧶

#DumpTheGuardian #EuropeIsrael #proZionism #proSionism #propaganda #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #StandWithIsrael #UK #Britain #England #London

In Marronage Lies the Search of a World

by Malcom Ferdinand: https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/14/1/182/294316

#reservations #silenciation #responsibility #emancipation #religions #whiteness #coloniality #modernity #separation #ecology #environmentalism #natives #indigènes #autochtones #maroon #marronage #MalcomFerdinand #AndreasMalm #Malm #wilderness #nature #decolonial #GreenSpaces #Maroons #colonization #imaginaries #systemicRacism #lynching #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #BlackMastodon #plantation #plantationism #agroForestry #structuralRacism #decolonialRead #longRead #gardening #Antilles #Caribbean #environmentalJustice

"Once at the cutting edge of a revolutionary movement, India has capitulated itself in striving to become a regional economic power-house."

Sara Radha Pelham, a Bengali Jew, reports: https://vashtimedia.com/india-israel-normalisation/ @india @israel

#HinduNationalism #Modi #India #coloniality #colonization #colonialism #development #growth #proZionism #globalization

Malm noted: “1840 was a pivotal year in history, for both the Middle East and the climate system. It marked the first time the British Empire deployed steamboats in a major war. Steam power was the technology through which dependence on fossil fuels came into being: Steam engines ran on coal, and it was their diffusion through the industries of Britain that turned this into the first fossil economy.

“Only by exporting it to the rest of the world and drawing humanity into the spiral of large-scale fossil fuel combustion,” Malm writes, “did Britain change the fate of this planet: The globalization of steam was a necessary ignition. The key to this ignition, in turn, was the deployment of steamboats in war. It was through the projection of violence that Britain integrated other countries into the strange kind of economy it had created — by turning fossil capital, we might say, into fossil empire.”

https://systemchangenotclimatechange.org/article/massive-scale-genocide-and-ecocide-are-close-relations/

#preying #predation #brutalization #looting #imperialism #proSionism #coloniality #Aliyah #climateChange #climateCatastrophe #book #paupericide #genocide #tactics #solidarity #BDS #IsraelBoycott #proZionism #fossilFuels #oilAndGas #AndreasMalm #Malm #israelPalestine #MiddleEast #UK #britain #StandWithIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #DefundIsrael #collusion #allies #history #colonialism #colonisation #colonization #BritishEmpire

@germany's government class deepens its alliance with @israel – criminalising dissent, rewarding lobby groups, and eroding rights in the name of fighting antisemitism

Jürgen Mackert: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/welcome-berlin-germany-capital-zionist-repression 🧵

#academicFreedom #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #StrikeGermany #Germany #EuropeIsrael #coloniality #Berlin #NeverAgainIsForAnyone #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #manipulation #coOpting #citizenship #freeSpeech #JurgenMackert #Mackert #civilLiberties

"In recent years, critical data studies from the Global South have gained traction, generating debates on power, knowledge production, and the politics of data. While these discussions challenge universalist frameworks, they also risk essentializing the ‘Global South’, requiring a more nuanced approach. This special issue centres Latin America as a site of theoretical, methodological, and empirical inquiry, highlighting its potential to generate new insights into datafication, power, and artificial intelligence. Rather than treating Latin America as a passive recipient of Global North theories, this issue foregrounds its epistemological and methodological contributions to global debates. Engaging with frameworks such as capitalism, coloniality, and dependency theory, the articles explore the region's heterogeneity and intellectual traditions in social sciences, humanities, and science and technology studies. This introduction proposes a research agenda for Latin American critical data studies – one that reflects historical legacies while envisioning possible data futures through interdisciplinary and critical engagement. It interrogates the politics of knowledge production, emphasizing the need for non-extractive, dialogical approaches to studying data in, from, and with Latin America. By centering Latin American scholarship and experiences, this special issue challenges dominant narratives in critical data studies and offers alternative theoretical perspectives that are globally informed yet locally grounded."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517251330160

#LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #CriticalDataStudies #STS #AI #Datafication #Capitalism #Coloniality #DependencyTheory

Architecture is never neutral. In this amazing conversation with architect and curator Mabel O. Wilson, we talk about certain architecture's fundational myths and the unspoken. We talk about whiteness, race, property, land and possesion. We also discuss racial assemblages and infrastructures, as well as colonial archives, silenced histories and reparation.

https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-421-2/

#podcast #coloniality #archives #architecture

"In terms of racial identity, white Americans have had the choice of being something vague, something unraced and separate from race. A capitalized "White" challenges that freedom, by unmasking Whiteness as an American racial identity as historically important as "Blackness" — which it certainly is."

~ Nell Irvin Painter: https://www.wctrib.com/opinion/nell-irvin-painter-why-white-should-be-capitalized-too via @breton 🧶

#raceMaking #entitlement #bias #whiteSupremacy #coloniality #decolonial #racism #antiRacism #sociology #USA #USPol #quotes #militancy #Americans #Whiteness #American #identity #blackMastodon #NellIrvinPainter

I wrote a thing, and if you're interested in #EdTech #TEL or #Education you might want to give it a wee read:

Generative AI: A Problematic Illustration

https://blog.mcchristie.com/generative-ai-a-problematic-illustration/

#AI #Coloniality #CPD #Ethnicity #Gender #Literacy #Race

#Design: Some airbags rupture and spray shards of metal and plastic at motorists.

The scandal involving the Japanese inflator manufacturer Takata, which has since gone bankrupt, has been affecting the automotive industry since 2014. Airbags explode if long-term exposure to high-humidity climates with big differences in daytime and night temperatures, like those found in Nigeria, Florida or Cuba.

'Airbag maker Takata had a “broken safety culture,” poor manufacturing processes and flawed quality control – and also an unhealthy dose of overconfidence': https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/knowledge-at-wharton-podcast/dasher-macduffie-takata-airbags/

#industry #automotive #safety #cars #transportation #airbags #Takata #Nigeria #Florida #Cuba #coloniality

Long read: British rule in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s enabled Zionist colonisation at the expense of Palestinians.

A.Bustos, "How Britain supported Zionism and prevented Palestinian freedom": https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-supported-zionism-and-prevented-palestinian-freedom/ @palestine @histodons 🧶

#Zionism #Balfour #StandWithIsrael #terrorism #coloniality #proZionism #antisemitism #CAA #JNF #Britain #UK #philosemitism #longRead #Palestine #colonialism #Diaspora #MiddleEast #BritishEmpire #BritishRule

"BBC staffers reveal editor's 'entire job' to whitewash Israeli war crimes"
at The Cradle: https://thecradle.co/articles/bbc-staffers-reveal-editors-entire-job-to-whitewash-israeli-war-crimes

#EuropeIsrael #propaganda #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #islamophobia #mediaCritique #UK #Britain #BBC #BBCNews

The TOP #5 being:

#1/ Yaiza Hernández
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-398/

#2/ Françoise Vergès https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-389-francoise-verges-2/

#3/ OBJECTHOOD #9
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/objecthood-9/

#4/ Imani Mason Jordan
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-395-2/

#5/ M Murphy https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-403/

#activism #coloniality #indigenousstuggles #extractivism #indigenousthinking #epistemicide
#anti-racism #writing #poetry #blackqueer #waste #terminaltourism #climatechange #touristification #infraestructures

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‘My hands are paralyzed from torture’: Gazans reveal horrors of Ofer Camp
By Oren Ziv for +972: https://www.972mag.com/ofer-camp-torture-gaza-detainees/

@israel 🧵

#health #revenge #punishment #retribution #stateViolence #administrativeDetention #israel #israelPalestine #prison #prisons #warCrimes #coloniality #torture #972Mag #prisoners #PalestinianLivesMatter #israelApartheid #detainees #Ofer

"Spreading fear and silencing
[…]
"As it silences and threatens to sanction any dissent against Israel, its apartheid system, and its crimes against humanity as antisemitic, it is obvious that the government and parliament intend to spread fear of being branded antisemitic, being criminalised and persecuted for expressing your opinion as a basic individual citizenship right.
[…]
"From the very beginning of Zionism in the late 19th century, #Germany has joyfully and wholeheartedly embraced what Theodor Herzl offered to the “West”.

"By demanding support for the Zionist movement from European powers, he submitted the offer that in Palestine the Zionists would “form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of #civilisation as opposed to barbarism”.

"God’s chosen people": https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-not-holocaust-guilt-entrenched-racist-superiority

#coloniality #landGrab #whiteSupremacy #supremacy #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #freeSpeech #nationalism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism

The German state has bound its own re-birth into the “realm of civilized nations” through a particular protective relationship with the figure of the Jew, where (always Jewish) Israelis are a prime embodiment of Jewish life.

"As long as the figure of the Jew remains a medium through which German post-unification identity is articulated and experienced, the performance of Jewish collective difference and political agency will be exclusively relegated to the State of Israel. The figure of the Palestinian, as well as Palestinians’ political subjecthood and demands for equality will, in turn, be addressed as either an annoyance to be ignored or a threat to be criminalized—rather than as a crucial prism through which the multiple layers of legitimatized moral violence in Germany have to be recognized."

Hannah Tzuberi & Nahed Samour in 2022: https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/the-german-state-and-the-creation-of-un-desired-communities/

#taboo #fetishism #sacred #holly #Germany #guilt #philoSemitism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #guilt #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael

@immibis
The article at top of this thread lists many examples of silencing by @germany

Your recollection may hint at an earlier incident:
#Oyoun, a migrant-led cultural center, refused to give in to political pressure and cancel the 20-year anniversary event of the Jewish anti-Zionist group Jüdische Stimme in November 2023. #Berlin’s Culture Minister #JoeChialo ended the center’s contract with the city government, effectively shuttering Oyoun.

They announced: “This decision feels like more than just a closure; it resembles the setting of a precedent that all state-funded institutions may now fear. The implications are far-reaching, impacting the very essence of artistic freedom and expression.”

https://www.the-berliner.com/english-news-berlin/oyoun-cultural-centre-to-close-after-senate-cuts-funding-jewish-voice-israel/

#censorship #freeSpeech #culturalBoycott #culture #Kultur #Germany #EuropeIsrael #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #supremacy #GermanPol #GermanPolitics #DEPol #stateRacism #genocideSupport #entitlement