I'm going to weigh in because this has been in my mind lately: I live in Canada but I come from a relatively homophobic country, Bulgaria. These days, there is a vibrant LGBTQ rights movement in the country, but that is quite a recent development. It formed organically within the society..

I'm starting to think that a cultural boycott is actually the most humane way to pressure a country like Israel. It's not coercive. It doesn't cost any lives. It barely even costs any livelihoods. The impact is powerful but almost entirely psychological.

This seems significant. The EU is Israel's biggest trading partner. The suspension of free trade would be very damaging to Israel's economy. I think it will happen, eventually.

They're going to keep raiding Syrian villages until there's a full-blown insurgency against the IDF. Even in the absence of any resistance, Israel can't help but brutalize the people whose land it occupies. Eventually resistance becomes the more logical choice.

This is something I've been thinking about recently. New generations are taught principles that their parents may pay lip service to only at ideals, but that their children take seriously.

John Spencer should be tried in the Hague for spreading the 1:1 civilian-to-combatant ratio hoax. Even by Israel's own numbers, which I have reason to be skeptical of, the actual ratio is 5:1.

Weird how Australian reps to Palestine need to get visas from Israel. Wonder what that's all about.

The fact that the occupation has continued for 58 brutal years resulted in some very powerful long term organizing that has been coming to fruition over the last 2 years. BDS took 20 years to reach its current point of development and popularity.

The numbers are impressive but so far these protests have had very little impact. If they're anything like previous anti-Netanyahu / pro-hostage exchange protests, part of the problem is that these are staid liberals protesting a violent, vigorous and highly motivated Israeli right wing.

I used to be really bothered by comments like the ones below this image of a dead, emaciated Palestinian in Gaza. Funnily enough, they mostly roll off my back now. It's just become a background chorus of gutter-level atrocity denial from people who are utterly lost.

This is quite a shallow analysis of Israel's current strategic situation. It's not the main point of the article, but it's the kind of view I've seen articulated by a lot of American "experts" who are impressed with Israel's flashy air power dominance but don't account for deeper regional dynamics.

I try to avoid making the Nazi comparison, but this is literally the logic of Nazi anti-partisan warfare in occupied Europe. It didn't work then because it turned even more people against the occupation and toward the resistance.

Who would've thought that bombing an Iranian prison would be understood as an attack on the prisoners rather than an attack on the regime? Not the big brains at the IDF, apparently, to whom every problem can be resolved with a sufficiently large air-dropped bomb.

It occurred to me during the 2024 campaign that a Biden/Harris loss might be needed to finally show Dems that unconditional support for Israel was a liability. It occurred to me that Trump taking 'owning' the Gaza genocide would make Dems more willing to criticize it.

I've been getting this question a lot, so let me be clear: I support Hamas diverting school lunches from Palestinian children and using them to turn Gaza into a nuclear power with the world's fourth largest active military. Always have, always will.

Muslims invented the concept of Taqiyya, which allows them to make statements that are *not* true in order to deceive their enemies. No other group of people is devious enough to have come up with such an idea.

How devious of Hamas to hide the commander of a "guided rocket platoon" in plain sight

This is a shockingly bad answer

One of the things that makes Israel unusual is that you can still lose your job if you criticize its behaviour. Organizations like HRC use bully tactics to get news media to modify their language, tone and focus on stories about Israel-Palestine.

This is part of the reason why I don't have a problem with people who self-IDs as 'Zionist' as long as they are against ethnic supremacy in Israel-Palestine. The problem, imo, is that a lot of people don't realize the degree to which ethnic supremacy is the foundational logic of the State of Israel.

I have very little faith in Israeli liberals to bring about an end to the genocide in Gaza. Mainstream opposition leaders parrot the same genocidal propaganda. Peaceful mass protests for a hostage deal have seemingly achieved nothing. Only the leftist radicals are calling it what it is, a genocide..

The killing of Awdah Hathaleen shows the limits of nonviolence. His murder by Israeli settler Yinon Levi was captured on video. Levi was arrested, then almost immediately released to three days house arrest. At best, progressives like Rabbi David Cooper hope his death could 'teach us empathy'.

Notable difference between the Israel-Iran ceasefire and the Israel-Hezbollah 'ceasefire' : Iran can make Israel hurt. A lot. That's why Israel is respecting the ceasefire. The lesson Israel and the US are sending is that they only understand force.

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After watching this and then reading about David Mamet this morning, I found myself empathizing with the man. It can't be easy feeling so paranoid and persecuted all the time.

We should be sending a combined naval force to break the siege and deliver aid.

He's technically correct, but also, it is a genocide.

Demanding a demilitarization of Palestine without demanding the same of Israel would, *at best*, set up a situation similar to Syria, in which Israel bombs, invades and takes territory at will just because they can.

If it wasn't already clear, Israeli policy is to systematically raze Palestinian cities to the ground, without exaggeration, on the basis that every house, school, hospital, mosque and market is "Hamas infrastructure".

Weird argument. Germany WAS a state, it committed genocide, was then occupied by foreign powers. The occupy powers didn't annex and settle it*. They didn't impose apartheid. They rebuilt the country and stood up two rival successor states.

Considering there are only two major political parties in Palestine, holding elections in which one of the parties is barred from running is frankly kind of a joke.

Turns out Canada was j/k about limiting arms exports to Israel

The UK is not a real country. Canada even less so.

Every influencer, media figure or "journalist" who peddled in genocide denial and/or genocidal propaganda should be put on trial by the ICC.

There's a whole online industry of "starving child debunkers" and every one of these monsters should be in jail for spreading genocidal propaganda.

It goes beyond war crimes. He more or less states that the IDF is worse than ISIS.

"But Kat, they launch missiles from hospitals!" To paraphrase Mohammed El-kurd, *even if* they launched missiles from hospitals, it would not justify subjecting 2m people to a man-made famine. The fact that this talking point is entirely made up is beside the point.

People should really reconsider whether they want to make themselves human shields for Israel at this particular moment in history.

Israel is levelling entire cities to the ground and you still get some seemingly reasonable people on here saying "I get that that's bad, but have you considered MY feelings?".

With the famine in Gaza reaching a critical tipping point, we're now re-engaging in discourse cycles about Israel's "right to exist". Fuck off with that shit.

Say what you will about Hamas, but armed resistance groups tend not to voluntarily disarm until their political objectives (in this case, the end of the occupation) have been met, at least in part.

Everyone posting shit like this is willingly making themselves into a human shield for the State of Israel.

People are coming out of the woodwork to condemn the famine in Gaza because it's clear that we're about to start seeing thousands of emaciated human beings drop dead and no one wants their name associated with the horrors to come. It's not about values, it's about image management.

People are more offended by Trump's rhetoric than they are by Biden's actions. You're allowed to do a genocide but you're supposed to act regretful while doing it. Trump's biggest sin is that he doesn't bother with that pretense.

According to this eyewitness, the IDF not only gunned down Palestinians at aid points, they fired tank shells and mortar rounds into the crowds. The IDF are committing a Markale massacre every day, but rather than intervening to stop it, western countries keep supplying the IDF with arms.

It's kind of remarkable how the Iraqi military, a force that nearly collapsed in 2014 and was riven with sectarianism, was able to defeat ISIS and reintegrate Mosul after 9 months of combat without flattening the city or massacreing civilians.

Say what you will, it is very entertaining watching Mehdi crush these people.

There was some debate when Beinart's new book came out about whether it would move anyone in the liberal Zionist audience to whom it was addressed. The second paragraph here suggests that Klein, at least, took Beinart's arguments to heart.

I was always suspicious of Canadian activist Yves Engler because he seemed like an irresponsible freak (a bit like Max Blumenthal in that regard). Anyway, it seems like my suspicions were confirmed today after he posted a diatribe on X that I think could fairly be described as antisemitic.

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