drbucephalus.bsky.social
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You just inserted the sinister part, despite my saying everyone's guilty of it. All I said is he isn't saying everything he's thinking. Which is no more controversial than saying someone talks with a filter. It's normal, not sinister. You're the one off the deep end here.
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The term was coined to classify a "scientific," racist ideology for hatred of Jews, and has always meant that. And putting aside how I said everyone does that, your attempt to erase the term for Jewish hatred points a whole lot more to your desire to enable *certain* bigotry.
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For Mamdani to claim this isn't the case, can't be the case, is a simple dodge. This is of course to allow breathing space for his activism to exist, but there's no test, no process for evaluating direct actions and messages for anti-Semitism--just a declaration of intent. So the problem remains.
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That's a legitimate criticism, but it is accurate to say Mamdani has refused to back off that exact language. Both intifadas meant armed struggle, and the second meant a rejection of Oslo. But globalizing armed resistance has historically meant targeting JEWISH targets, without political caveats.
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Don't answer back if you can't take the same bitch.
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Second, some of us support a two state solution still. You can claim the purity of a Frantz Fanon if you like, but not everyone rejects Oslo.
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It's not stupid and certainly not illiterate. If anything, you guys divorcing the meaning from a language you can't even pronounce, let alone appreciate, is illiterate. Both intifadas meant armed struggle, not peaceful resistance.
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Again, not an answer. Just an excuse to back out.
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How's that work though?
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You're a fucking clown. You complain about anti-Semitism being a false claim and then say something this ridiculous?
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Not an answer.
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Zohran is carefully avoiding saying everything he thinks. And I can't blame him for that. I know more people who do than than otherwise, let alone politicians, who get the benefit of people projecting what they want on their candidate.
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Yes it has. If I were there I'd be protesting with everyone else in the streets.
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Please stop with the stock answer and read what I wrote instead.
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Intifada is an Arabic word meaning "shaking off," and as an idiom has always meant violent resistance against Zionism. Globalizing that parts the violence from the power structure. You can't claim criticism of Israel isn't anti-Semitism and claim pointing out this problem is inherently Islamophobic.
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They restored it last night. The current theory on reddit is it was bot swarms mass reporting for things like terrorism. That exploits the AI mods who will immediately suspend or even delete groups.
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He thanked them? He even said thank you.
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Literally read the article first.
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You didn't read the article even to make this comment. The story is they were killed on 10/7, and the bodies were taken to Gaza. Dead bodies have long been used for bargaining with Israel. Hizballah famously did it in the 2000s.
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Just sayin somebody needs to make slutty emoji versions of these Trump holiday tweets. Someone very brave.
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Strangely enough that had no mention in the debate and legislation of the Law of Return.
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79? You mean the first Lebanon war? Palestinians were there because after Black September Jordan had driven their militant groups out.
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Because people have been talking about what the region SHOULD do since long before I was born. So far that kind of talk hasn't made any difference. Bibi cares about political realities. That's what put him where he is now.
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You have to know most Israelis are living where they were born.
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I don't. That's why I believe in a mutual agreement between equals.
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Already from near the start there were the Fedayoun raids, that attacked kibbutzes and homes near the border.
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On this I agree. And you don't know how clearly the right wing sees this. Every change they've wanted, they'll now force that change. And many Israelis say if there's no moral option, then survival it is. And that just drains me.
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Two thousands years goes through the mix of conquest after conquest. Hadrian expelled us. The Byzantines turned the Temple site into a garbage dump, per Pauline ideas. Life was terrible and people were mobile when they needed to be over the centuries. No one should have more or less rights for it.
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I can admit to orientalism and chauvinism in previous generations without a problem. The difference is I don't believe it undoes the legitimacy of a state. Practically every state would lose its legitimacy on those grounds.
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You apparently didn't grasp the question. Pre-67, why were the refugees not absorbed? You realize the camps all were founded outside the borders of Israel at that time.
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Buddy, if I were to quiz you on the recorded history of the region I'm not sure how you'd do. Besides, you just said you don't put an effort in, up thread.
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Firsthand. Did you miss the part where I said my family has deep roots there? The West Bank is awful now thanks to Smotrich, and the most extreme elements make great video for the algorithm. Always have, always will. Every country is capable of falling into that darkness. None are immune to it.
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If you're so familiar with the issue then you should already know the response. Why were refugees not absorbed and made citizens, as in every other war? The real answer I know now is it's a matter of identity to Palestinians. Many who moved there at the same time Zionists did. People migrate.
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You're getting your news from a bias-serving algorithm. But that's the same as all of us. For what it's worth I grew up on stories of Arabs throwing garbage on us, as we prayed at the Western Wall. But swapping stories like that goes nowhere.
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You mean how the original kingdom mostly didn't touch the shore? You do realize one of the biggest problems is the refugee populations. There's way more in the West Bank, far from the shore.
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I get it. As for me, my family goes back six generations there (on one side). I know some people might see me as supporting genocide to say I still believe in a two state solution. Even if you want Frantz Fanon rules, you have to admit two states would be less a ugly looking process.
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Oh hey guy who came in here not having read anything now knows more. I hope that's true, bro.
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You keep getting facts wrong. Why trust me to tell you when I'd just be repeating corporatized media? You want to own someone without putting in the smallest bit of work because capitalism? Go fuck yourself. Literally read about a story before commenting. It's an acceptable bar. Fucking idiot.
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Buddy, fucking google the story before playing gotcha. I don't have time for zero-effort sealioning. It's insulting.
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Have you considered reading a newspaper first?
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Embassy staffers and AIPAC politicians aren't the same thing. Facts matter. What I notice is you coming to the same conclusion over and over.
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Well it was an American Jewish Committee event at a Jewish Museum. I think it was networking for wannabe diplomats.
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Honestly it's hard to get a more Israeli Jewish first name than Yaron, first of all. NYT says she was from Kansas, and he was born in Israel, moved with his family to Germany, then came back with them where they live near Jerusalem.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/w...
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He was Jewish. Israeli. She was Christian, and American, a detail I didn't know when I first left my comment. You were saying something about certain facts mattering? Unless facts on the victims already don't matter because they've forfeited their humanity anyway.