theacharnian
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I know that Jewish diaspora institutions have been extremely unfairly targetted recently. ::: spoiler TW: attack For example, in Montreal and in Toronto there have been disgusting shooting attacks against Jewish schools. ::: Thankfully, in the ones I know of, nobody had been hurt, even if it has had a chilling and terrorizing effect. But that's entirely different.
A protest in broad daylight in a central space, I don't understand what kind of "peril" any random Jewish person might be faced with. I mean you will hear rhetoric against Israel and if you show up with an Israeli flag to counter protest you will get yelled at. But that's not any kind of special peril for the diaspora in general. Show up with a Turkish flag at a Kurdish rally and the same applies. That's not a peril for diaspora Turks.
theacharnian
10h ago
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That's a weird thing to say. How are protesters blocking a bridge affect British Jews specifically? They didn't block it only for jews and leave it open for non-jews or something.
theacharnian
12h ago
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You know who has the absolute power to end that war, proxy or not? Russia. Russia does. They can withdraw back to their internationally recognized borders and the war will end immediately.
theacharnian
12h ago
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The Jerusalem Post weirdly filing this under the "Diaspora" category?
theacharnian
13h ago
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I don't understand why you need to compare with something else. The horrors speak for themselves. Compare with normalcy if you have to.
theacharnian
16h ago
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And when the horrors of Israeli genocide don't align perfectly with the ones of Nazi genocide, you end up having to have the least productive discussion in the world. Or you get the discussion of witch one is worse in the horror Olympics. Not to mention you rhetorically open up the space for concern trolls and spurious antisemitism attacks. It really is counterproductive.
theacharnian
1d ago
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We don't need Holocaust analogies, they only obscure reality and evoke mixed emotions. The blur things.
Israeli apartheid and genocide are their own unique kind of human horror. We don't need postmodernism here. Call it for what it actually is.
theacharnian
1d ago
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Ghouls like those chanting "Māwet lā-Arāvīm"?
theacharnian
2d ago
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And if your dream were ever to come true (and I unwaveringly support you in that), would you accept to live in the conditions that Palestinians are forced to endure in the occupied territories? Hell, even the conditions that Arab Israelis are enduring as second class citizens inside Israel proper?
I don't fucking think so.
Which brings me back to my main question: do you accept the basic Enlightenment, Common-Sense principle of same rights, and same laws, and same protections for all people from the river to the sea?
theacharnian
2d ago
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I'm looking at the Fatah charter and I don't see that line you claim is there ("no other human can be Palestinian, besides Arabs").
Are you making some kind of bad faith reference to the line "Long live Palestine, free and Arab"? Because this line is entirely consistent with the two-state solution, which imagines a Jewish Israel alongside an Arab Palestine.
theacharnian
2d ago
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TFW you realize countries outside NATO also have rule of law.
theacharnian
2d ago
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Awesome. Looking forward to the day when Netanyahu and Gallant also get the treatment. Come on ICC, put out the warrants!
theacharnian
2d ago
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Ok, I'm convinced, let Alberta separate.
theacharnian
2d ago
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that's not what they meant though, you removed the context of the phrase. Their point is that it's not as if when you remove sinwar suddenly the rest wake up from the matrix.
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Well, now. That's not a lie, habibi.
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sadly, also not a lie. Israel seems to have just created a a martyr. See: "Palestinians say drone footage shows Sinwar's 'heroic' final moments in Gaza".
theacharnian
2d ago
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Please quote here the exact phrase from the post that is a lie.
theacharnian
2d ago
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Are they asking to do so? Is there an organization, entity, etc that argues for their return? If so, please let me know its name because I would want to donate to them because I 100% support their right to do so.
Because I don't have double standards. And to bring the focus back to Palestine and Israel, I 100% support the right of Jews to live and thrive in safety there AND I 100% support the right of Palestinians to do the exact same. No double standard. Same rights, same protections.
Do you accept that principle?
theacharnian
2d ago
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Saying that letting Palestinians work in their own ancestral land as precarious labour is "Israel supporting Palestinians", is like saying that Apartheid South Africa was such a supportive institution for letting the blacks in Soweto work outside the fucking Bantustan.
theacharnian
2d ago
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Don't be daft, he's explaining, not justifying.
theacharnian
3d ago
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the depopulation of all the jews in Israel [is] what Palestinians in Gaza are advocating for
That's exactly as true and accurate as saying that "The Jews in Israel are advocating for the ethnic cleansing of all the Arabs from Eretz Yisrael". Such a phrase of course is antisemitic as fuck, and no reasonable person would say it. Just like your phrase is racist/anti-palestinian as fuck. Which makes me think you're not a reasonable person.
theacharnian
3d ago
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This is simply a statement of fact: "Palestinians say drone footage shows Sinwar's 'heroic' final moments in Gaza".
This is not how peace will come. "You can do many things with bayonets except sit on them." ~ Talleyrand
They are trying hard to make you not notice you're spending a week of your life driving each year.
Taking away people's family doctors: How to make sure you lose the next election.
“The Israeli prime minister came here today and said that Israel is surrounded by those who want to destroy it,” Safadi said at a Friday press conference shortly after Netanyahu finished his speech at the UN General Assembly. “We’re here — members of the Muslim-Arab committee, mandated by 57 Arab and Muslim countries — and I can tell you very unequivocally, all of us are willing to guarantee the security of Israel in the context of Israel ending the occupation and allowing for the emergence of a Palestinian state,” Safadi passionately argued. Netanyahu “is creating that danger because he simply does not want the two-state solution. If he does not want the two-state solution, can you ask Israeli officials what is their end-game — other than just wars and wars and wars?” Also, [video of the statement](https://youtu.be/GYr3hYjHlx8?si=gN43OngMBbdJrxOq).
TFW you support Israel so much that you start treating Palestinian children just like they do.
www.bbc.com
Turns out Abbé Pierre was a creep... This is like learning Mohter Theresa was a sexual predator.
According to Barbara Bedont, Alkhdour's lawyer, the charges come from a protest that took place last Thursday in front of the Liberal campaign office, with Miller nearby. Bedont said Alkhdour was packing her belongings after the protest, when Miller showed up in a vehicle. She said Alkhdour approached the vehicle and "expressed her feelings about his policies." "They said 'shame on you' and 'you're a child killer.' Things like that — political speech," the lawyer said, adding that Miller was in the vehicle the whole time before it drove off. She said the interaction lasted about five seconds, with Alkhdour standing about a metre away from the vehicle, and the other two people charged standing further back. "At no time was he ever threatened," Bedont said. "There was no violence. It was a purely peaceful expression of her political views." Alkhdour's protests began shortly after the death of her 13-year-old daughter, Jana Elkahlout, who was born with cerebral palsy. Alkhdour, her husband and two of her children moved to Quebec in 2019, and started the process of bringing Jana to Canada, after she was forced to stay in Gaza due to the unavailability of safe ambulance travel between there and Egypt. After years of trying to get her daughter to come to Canada, the family finally received the green light from the federal government in January, but Jana was already dead.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28449417 > Canadian mega landlord using AI ‘pricing scheme’ as it massively hikes rents
Discussions about scarcity and anarchism that I've seen online seem to always talk about "scarcity in the large", i.e. how does an anarchist society allocate production, food, labour, materials etc. I've a question about anarchism and scarcity in the small. Say, a really nice location, eg. a breezy location in a very hot climate, or the room with the nice windows in the community centre, or Bag End at the top of the hill. Say, an anarchist community has decided to use the location for purpose X, but a minority wants to use it for purpose Y. Maybe an even smaller minority wants to do Z, and a bunch of other people have their own little ideas about how to use it. Some are transient and could be accommodated (you get it on Tuesdays 5-7) but others might not be ("our sculpture project needs to dry out in that specific spot for the next 4 months, we know it blocks the view but it's the only place the breeze hits just right!") or could be contradictory (the siesta people vs the loud backgammon players can't both use the spot at high noon) or antagonistic (the teenagers who want to party late vs the new parents who need quiet for the babies). And dis-association doesn't really help here because that's the nice spot for many kilometers around or there is literally no way to create another beach for our small island community because that's literally the only place on the island where sand exists, so we can't just off and leave. (* Many of these examples are imagining a hot summer in an anarchist Greece, sorry it's almost August.) It looks to me like a simple non-life-and-death scenario like this could potentially completely poison and destroy a community and in the face of that it would be the little death of anti-authoritarian organizing. Like yea, when life and death matters are at hand, anarchists will band together and conquer the bread. But petty small-scale little shit where it's managing annoyances and small grievances, I don't think non-authoritarian decision making can solve. And I suspect it's crap like this that has killed off many intentional communities and experiments or made them veer away from non-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian organizing. Have anarchist thinkers seriously thought of this?
Submitting for this truly astonishing quote: >" Landlords in Quebec, however, feel they need to catch up to other provinces as Quebec is still one of the most affordable places to live in the country, said Jean-Olivier Reed, a spokesperson for the Quebec Landlord Association (APQ)."
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/23000968 > Incapables de trouver du travail en français au Nouveau-Brunswick, ils pensent partir au Québec