Probably explains why he is generally more forthright in calling stuff out.
The UN commentary becomes more and more disturbing. Pretty much the only concession to the usual UN/diplomacy speak is the inclusion of the word "potentially" in there...and obviously that has to be there until proven.
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Now, the international rule of law is being progressively dismantled,” he added. “Either the worlds ashamedly fails those who so desperately need help, or we stand united and put a stop to this.
Under the Geneva Conventions, States have an obligation to act when a serious violation of international humanitarian law has been committed,” Türk said. “Under the Genocide Convention, State parties also have the responsibility to act to prevent such a crime, when risk becomes apparent.
He's been defending the use of a well-known antisemitic trope. He's gone on doing it even when that's been pointed out. He's not a stupid man. All together, this is a combination I'm less interested in wrestling with, than I am in my own mental health.
Plenty of other anti-racists here, they can do it
Everything Kabbes says in that post about where we are at now is true. The Israelis are intent on wiping out the Palestinians both physically and psychologically. It is a systematic, organised, deliberate genocide.He's been defending the use of a well-known antisemitic trope. He's gone on doing it even when that's been pointed out. He's not a stupid man. All together, this is a combination I'm less interested in wrestling with, than I am in my own mental health.
Plenty of other anti-racists here, they can do it
You seem to be ignoring the fact that this didn't start on 7 October and has been going on since 1948. Tell me, if this country found itself being occupied by an aggressive foreign power (one could argue that it's already being occupied by the USA), would you resist or collaborate? There was resistance against the US occupation of South Vietnam and yes, there were atrocities committed by the Vietcong and the US and its allies. Indeed, some of the worst atrocities were carried out by the US and South Korea. Would you have "bothsidesed" that and ignored the reasons why the Vietnamese resisted? The Vietnamese had a right to resist and this doesn't, in any way, diminish the methods used.I never said you were, did I? And yet you do seem to be suggesting that one side in this conflict is not to blame. Obviously one side is more powerful, and I'd agree that side should be more willing to compromise. But there are harsh realities on both sides. You might not like it, but acting as if that's not true just looks ridiculous.
So, yes, the Palestinian Solidarity Movement is the latest symbol of the Left’s ongoing critique of the West, in the tradition of its support for abolition, women’s suffrage, civil rights, an end to the fighting in Vietnam, the dismantling of Apartheid, and BLM. It’s not a movement principally in support of Hamas or of October 7.*
But the Left’s critique was, and is, correct, in principle. Israel’s culture of domination is a bloated form of chauvinism and, in some circles, supremacy, that has and will continue to evoke serious, and sometimes tragic, resistance. Many Israelis, and Diaspora Jews, agree with that. As Thomas Jefferson once said, slavery will end one day because “subjugated people will eventually rebel.” And, as Michael Kaplow recently suggested, there isn’t a “cycle of violence” in Israel/Palestine, but rather a “system of violence”—a system of violence perpetuated by the occupation. Only now the occupation has largely become the government itself, supported by a majority of the electorate.
Zionism, which was given both increased relevance and justification by the Nazi genocide, is so much more expansive than Israel’s actions or its apologists’ rhetoric suggest.
Think you posted the same link twice. Got one for the documentary.I watched an Al Jazeera documentary last night on Israel. Need to watch it again as a lot in it
Is 'Western Self-Hatred' the Problem in the Gaza War Protest Movement?
After listening to a 90-minute comprehensive webinar on campus protests and antisemitism, led by a prominent Hillel rabbi at an elite university, I was shocked that there was no mention of Israel’s war on Gaza that has so far killed tens of thousands of civilians and injured almost 100,000 people. Treligiondispatches.org
This guy was speaking a lot on it. An American Rabbi also has Israeli citizenship.
He's written a lot. Here is what I thought was a good article about anti semitism and the protest movement in US and West.
He takes issue idea of Left Anti semitism.
Is 'Western Self-Hatred' the Problem in the Gaza War Protest Movement?
After listening to a 90-minute comprehensive webinar on campus protests and antisemitism, led by a prominent Hillel rabbi at an elite university, I was shocked that there was no mention of Israel’s war on Gaza that has so far killed tens of thousands of civilians and injured almost 100,000 people. Treligiondispatches.org
On Israel being picked on. He says good question. Lists other issues that Left has picked on over the years. Anti Vietnam war protests / Occupy etc. His view is that single issues come to represent a general critique against injustice.
Israel isn't being picked on for reasons of anti semitism but as , for example. Representative of carceral state. It's not that Israel is unique in this way.
On Zionism he says:
Think you posted the same link twice. Got one for the documentary.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that this didn't start on 7 October and has been going on since 1948. Tell me, if this country found itself being occupied by an aggressive foreign power (one could argue that it's already being occupied by the USA), would you resist or collaborate? There was resistance against the US occupation of South Vietnam and yes, there were atrocities committed by the Vietcong and the US and its allies. Indeed, some of the worst atrocities were carried out by the US and South Korea. Would you have "bothsidesed" that and ignored the reasons why the Vietnamese resisted? The Vietnamese had a right to resist and this doesn't, in any way, diminish the methods used.
I haven't 'defended' anything, actually, you're clearly not even bothering to read my posts. And I don't care if you're Karl Marx's long-lost twin, you're racist as shit and your racism on this thread is encouraging other racists. All the don't you know who I ams in the world are worth exactly fuck all to me. Clear now?You repeatedly defend the indefensible and lash out with accusations of antisemitism when israel's criminal actions are contested.
Perhaps you could be more interested in the deaths of tens of thousands of complete innocents rather than 'wrestling or your own mental health'.
I have Jewish blood relatives so don't you fucking dare try the antisemitism accusation ever again, you dissembling manipulative tosser.
(Oh yeah and you, whoever you were.)The IDF are Nazis.
Comparing israel to famously anti-semitic nazi germany, specifically. Not other violent or right wing or racist or genocidal endeavours but specifically The Nazis.Help me out here. I'm not seeing the 'well-known antisemitic trope'?
Right. And how many people have personally explained their racist expressions to you that way? Or are you just assuming / inventing an imaginary prole who justifies their racism with "I'm not racist, that's just the only comparison I can think of! Nothing to do with j00z1!!1"I’ve not made any of my personal views clear at all, other than the fact that I find the genocide horrific and unsupportable. Don’t confuse my analysis of how other people present their understanding of the situation with my own personal understanding of that situation.
Or maybe, intelligent people can hold racist views without necessarily even realising. Unconscious bias is, by its nature, something we aren't aware of.I think you’re very confused between “defending the use of” and “analysing how and why some people are using it”. You’re also begging the question of it being antisemitic. In the true, technical sense of “begging the question”. You’ve started from the assumption that the use of it is necessarily antisemitic — regardless of context, individual knowledge or anything else — and used that assumption to draw the conclusion that the people using it are therefore antisemitic.
Then maybe you should consider that I’m not just saying stupid things. Maybe I’m not saying the things that you are assuming I am, for example?
Of course you do, he's on your 'side' lol. Remember when you warned posters to be careful with language, because 'they' were setting traps?kabbes has put a lot of well thought contributions to this thread. Not just knee jerk reactions.
Doesn't mean one has to agree with everything they post.
I think trying to smear Kabbes with anti semitism is a bit off
Again, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE NAZIS, and yet it always is. Not the many other comparisons that eg. I've made, but specifically nazis. Why? Why is the specifically nazi mass-murder the first one of the last 100 years or so that some people reach for?Everything Kabbes says in that post about where we are at now is true. The Israelis are intent on wiping out the Palestinians both physically and psychologically. It is a systematic, organised, deliberate genocide.
So I have a genuine question for you here. What is the line that Israel would have to cross for comparisons of its actions to those of other systematic genociders not to be antisemitic? Is there one?
Plenty of people here are doing this. I've done it myself. I dont think I need to do it in every post tbh.One of the problems with your lines of thought as posted here is that they have absolutely nothing to say to or for the Palestinians who are being subjected to a genocide right now.
You think you're going round and round on this one, and getting nowhere, because other people have an unconscious bias about Israel and don't even know they are being antisemitic. I think we're all going round and round and that you're becoming very boring. Which is a shame, because I normally read your posts with interest. Now I tend to think 'here we go again'.......you still call it "bothsidesing"
I haven't 'defended' anything, actually, you're clearly not even bothering to read my posts. And I don't care if you're Karl Marx's long-lost twin, you're racist as shit and your racism on this thread is encouraging other racists. All the don't you know who I ams in the world are worth exactly fuck all to me. Clear now?
Comparing israel to famously anti-semitic nazi germany, specifically. Not other violent or right wing or racist or genocidal endeavours but specifically The Nazis.
You don't have to 'get it', personally, but I'm tired of pointing it out.
There are better, more accurate and less racist comparisons, many of which I've made on this thread. That people aren't listening, are defending it or standing up for it, isn't on me.
Right. And how many people have personally explained their racist expressions to you that way? Or are you just assuming / inventing an imaginary prole who justifies their racism with "I'm not racist, that's just the only comparison I can think of! Nothing to do with j00z1!!1"
Or maybe, intelligent people can hold racist views without necessarily even realising. Unconscious bias is, by its nature, something we aren't aware of.
There's no need to use and re-use this trope, or even 'explain' why people might; do we agonize over why someone calls muslims 'terrorists', or calls africans 'monkeys'? No we don't. With other racist tropes we just say fucking stop it. Think about that, not-stupid-man making not-stupid-points.
Of course you do, he's on your 'side' lol. Remember when you warned posters to be careful with language, because 'they' were setting traps?
Maybe take a step back and think again.
Again, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE NAZIS, and yet it always is. Not the many other comparisons that eg. I've made, but specifically nazis. Why? Why is the specifically nazi mass-murder the first one of the last 100 years or so that some people reach for?
What could it possibly be?
Plenty of people here are doing this. I've done it myself. I dont think I need to do it in every post tbh.
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Is that all?
Thanks for the dogpile. Again
"Why is the specifically nazi mass-murder the first one of the last 100 years or so that some people reach for?......you still call it "bothsidesing"
I haven't 'defended' anything, actually, you're clearly not even bothering to read my posts. And I don't care if you're Karl Marx's long-lost twin, you're racist as shit and your racism on this thread is encouraging other racists. All the don't you know who I ams in the world are worth exactly fuck all to me. Clear now?
Comparing israel to famously anti-semitic nazi germany, specifically. Not other violent or right wing or racist or genocidal endeavours but specifically The Nazis.
You don't have to 'get it', personally, but I'm tired of pointing it out.
There are better, more accurate and less racist comparisons, many of which I've made on this thread. That people aren't listening, are defending it or standing up for it, isn't on me.
Right. And how many people have personally explained their racist expressions to you that way? Or are you just assuming / inventing an imaginary prole who justifies their racism with "I'm not racist, that's just the only comparison I can think of! Nothing to do with j00z1!!1"
Or maybe, intelligent people can hold racist views without necessarily even realising. Unconscious bias is, by its nature, something we aren't aware of.
There's no need to use and re-use this trope, or even 'explain' why people might; do we agonize over why someone calls muslims 'terrorists', or calls africans 'monkeys'? No we don't. With other racist tropes we just say fucking stop it. Think about that, not-stupid-man making not-stupid-points.
Of course you do, he's on your 'side' lol. Remember when you warned posters to be careful with language, because 'they' were setting traps?
Maybe take a step back and think again.
Again, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE NAZIS, and yet it always is. Not the many other comparisons that eg. I've made, but specifically nazis. Why? Why is the specifically nazi mass-murder the first one of the last 100 years or so that some people reach for?
What could it possibly be?
Plenty of people here are doing this. I've done it myself. I dont think I need to do it in every post tbh.
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Is that all?
Thanks for the dogpile. Again
I normally read your posts with interest. Now I tend to think 'here we go again'.
"Why is the specifically nazi mass-murder the first one of the last 100 years or so that some people reach for?
What could it possibly be?"
Because people are less familiar with other examples of mass murder.
You don't remember Milosevic being described as "the new Hitler"?I admire your generosity.
A long and self-pitying post from one whom I’ve not attacked or accused of anything at all, but who has quite happily accused me of all sorts.Loads of individuals get compared to hitler. We have a 'worse than hitler' thread on here, even.
But not all groups/organizations get compared to nazis. That's been a comparison some on the Left have made with Israel for years. For years it's been widely-regarded as an antisemitic comparison because other states, as or more violent, genocidal or expansionist, don't. Whoever doesn't get that is possibly not aware of this long history. I'd accept that. But now, we are; because people here including me have pointed it out. Ignore that, minimise it, sideline it, whatever. Nobody can tell someone how to think, all we can do is raise flags here and there.
On which, I'm fascinated by the process by which I've been turned into a genocide-supporting, manipulative, dishonest cheerleader for neo-nazis, when all my life I've been opposed to Israeli violence and expansion, deeply and personally invested in the need for peace not war in the middle east, have read very widely on the history of the state of israel and zionism (probably more than anyone else here, except currently maybe Gramsci who's been catching up at lightning speed though IMO a bit, heh, one-sidedly. But better than the wall-to-wall knee-jerking that a lot of people here are engaged in).
Anyway, the vitriol that some of my posts here have attracted, when I've made clear again and again my opposition to israeli excesses, as well as my support for a proper palestinian state, has been genuinely surprising. It feels like what's attracting the anger isn't what I'm posting, specifically, but a sense of look at this pro-israel cunt, I want to put him in his place. Not because I've been supporting the war, its instigators, or their aims (see the Russia/Ukraine thread for examples of this and responses to it) because I haven't done that, not done it at all. In fact I've been explicitly critical of Israeli actions and the Israeli govt all the way through this thread.
I'm getting this because I speak positively about Israel at all. I know this. You know this. Be fucking honest about it.
I'd say the idea other states don't get this is bollocks. They do. Also it has always been presented to me as it being wrong essentially because of how much Jews suffered under the Nazis. The reason you give I hear much more in regard to other terms like Apartheid (the one that springs to mind) to describe Israeli actions.But not all groups/organizations get compared to nazis. That's been a comparison some on the Left have made with Israel for years. For years it's been widely-regarded as an antisemitic comparison because other states, as or more violent, genocidal or expansionist, don't.
Plenty of regimes have been compared to the Nazis, including Israel. As I've said, I don't think it's the right thing to do and that's regardless of which regime it is but I also don't think that it's necessarily anti-semitic to do so (and I've seen nothing I'd consider anti-semitic from the posters you are attacking). Likewise, I don't see you as someone who is blind to the apalling crimes against humanity Israel are comitting and you definitely do criticise them plenty.Loads of individuals get compared to hitler. We have a 'worse than hitler' thread on here, even.
But not all groups/organizations get compared to nazis. That's been a comparison some on the Left have made with Israel for years. For years it's been widely-regarded as an antisemitic comparison because other states, as or more violent, genocidal or expansionist, don't. Whoever doesn't get that is possibly not aware of this long history. I'd accept that. But now, we are; because people here including me have pointed it out. Ignore that, minimise it, sideline it, whatever. Nobody can tell someone how to think, all we can do is raise flags here and there.
On which, I'm fascinated by the process by which I've been turned into a genocide-supporting, manipulative, dishonest cheerleader for neo-nazis, when all my life I've been opposed to Israeli violence and expansion, deeply and personally invested in the need for peace not war in the middle east, have read very widely on the history of the state of israel and zionism (probably more than anyone else here, except currently maybe Gramsci who's been catching up at lightning speed though IMO a bit, heh, one-sidedly. But better than the wall-to-wall knee-jerking that a lot of people here are engaged in).
Anyway, the vitriol that some of my posts here have attracted, when I've made clear again and again my opposition to israeli excesses, as well as my support for a proper palestinian state, has been genuinely surprising. It feels like what's attracting the anger isn't what I'm posting, specifically, but a sense of look at this pro-israel cunt, I want to put him in his place. Not because I've been supporting the war, its instigators, or their aims (see the Russia/Ukraine thread for examples of this and responses to it) because I haven't done that, not done it at all. In fact I've been explicitly critical of Israeli actions and the Israeli govt all the way through this thread.
I'm getting this because I speak positively about Israel at all. I know this. You know this. Be fucking honest about it.
Sorry posted up same link twice
The documentary is this
It wasn't what I expected. Mainly Jewish people talking.
I need to watch it again as an awful lot in it
There is long conversation about Zionism/ Orientalism/ Anti semitism
From an historical and philosophical viewpoint. Which is fascinating.
I watch a lot of stuff on Al Jazeera. This was genuinely in-depth and looking at the conflict from a different angle
It's largely a Jewish take on background to Zionism and Anti semitism.
I looked up the contributors. Mainly US academics
For the de facto apologist for the racist supremacist regime and the Nazi like crimes against humanity of its fascist military to call me a racist is just a tad ironic.......you still call it "bothsidesing"
I haven't 'defended' anything, actually, you're clearly not even bothering to read my posts. And I don't care if you're Karl Marx's long-lost twin, you're racist as shit and your racism on this thread is encouraging other racists. All the don't you know who I ams in the world are worth exactly fuck all to me. Clear now?
(Oh yeah and you, whoever you were.)
Comparing israel to famously anti-semitic nazi germany, specifically. Not other violent or right wing or racist or genocidal endeavours but specifically The Nazis.
You don't have to 'get it', personally, but I'm tired of pointing it out.
There are better, more accurate and less racist comparisons, many of which I've made on this thread. That people aren't listening, are defending it or standing up for it, isn't on me.
Right. And how many people have personally explained their racist expressions to you that way? Or are you just assuming / inventing an imaginary prole who justifies their racism with "I'm not racist, that's just the only comparison I can think of! Nothing to do with j00z1!!1"
Or maybe, intelligent people can hold racist views without necessarily even realising. Unconscious bias is, by its nature, something we aren't aware of.
There's no need to use and re-use this trope, or even 'explain' why people might; do we agonize over why someone calls muslims 'terrorists', or calls africans 'monkeys'? No we don't. With other racist tropes we just say fucking stop it. Think about that, not-stupid-man making not-stupid-points.
Of course you do, he's on your 'side' lol. Remember when you warned posters to be careful with language, because 'they' were setting traps?
Maybe take a step back and think again.
Again, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE NAZIS, and yet it always is. Not the many other comparisons that eg. I've made, but specifically nazis. Why? Why is the specifically nazi mass-murder the first one of the last 100 years or so that some people reach for?
What could it possibly be?
Plenty of people here are doing this. I've done it myself. I dont think I need to do it in every post tbh.
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Is that all?
Thanks for the dogpile. Again