The Israeli government is committing genocide—one of the greatest evils known to humankind—in Gaza. Executing unarmed non-combatants is evil. Not only are both these statements true, they’re synergistic—part of the same humanist philosophy. I condemn the Israeli government _and_ the DC assassin. - ThreadSky

sethabramson.bsky.social • 2 days ago

The Israeli government is committing genocide—one of the greatest evils known to humankind—in Gaza.

Executing unarmed non-combatants is evil.

Not only are both these statements true, they’re synergistic—part of the same humanist philosophy.

I condemn the Israeli government _and_ the DC assassin.

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fileckert.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes.

cassielewispoet.com•2 days ago

Thank you for the moral clarity. Anyone attempting to justify either assassinating diplomats or starving civilians by any logic at all has completely lost their way. Neither act helps any just cause.

mitchellcolbert.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

MLK Jr's Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail, April 16, 1963.

michaelmozina.bsky.social•2 days ago

Face it, Netanyahu is just the extreme Zionist flipside of Hamas.

parahandie.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/parahandie.bsky.social/post/3lppjjcfiyk

sethabramson.bsky.social•2 days ago

If you cannot condemn _both_ the Israeli government for what it is doing _and_ an assassin killing two unarmed non-combatants in the capital of the United States, this is not the right feed for you. There are plenty of social media feeds with no moral sense at all—no consistent principles—out there.

nocheckmark.lol•2 days ago

Unarmed non combatants can still support a war effort

plumeriasophy.bsky.social•1 day ago

sure, but that doesn't suddenly make it ethical to murder them - shooting an unarmed person is...you know...bad

nocheckmark.lol•1 day ago

Is it? Who says? I don’t agree that that is absolutely true in all cases. United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was unarmed, yet responsible for the needless deaths of millions. Shooting him was an unambiguous moral good. Unarmed ≠ innocent when the pen is mightier than the sword.

plumeriasophy.bsky.social•1 day ago

that seems pretty debatable - what makes it good? it might make people feel better, for sure, but that's not the same as being morally good

we'd need some kind of connection between 'guilty' and 'murderable', which is controversial to say the least

nocheckmark.lol•1 day ago

If a bully is strangling and pummeling someone to death against a wall, and the victim punches back, do we tell the victim they were wrong for resorting to violence in self defense? It’s clear that no one is coming to save us. We are cattle to people like Peter Thiel, Netanyahu, and their reps.

nocheckmark.lol•1 day ago

Execs know that fines are the cost of doing business. They set aside funds to deal with lawsuits. There is no meaningful system of accountability in the face of that much wealth. Lawyers, lobbyists, legislators, police, all bought. What is left? Strongly worded letters?

nocheckmark.lol•1 day ago

To your question, what makes it good?, Anthem Blue Cross reversed a decision to impose time limits on anesthesia after the shooting. It was an effective deterrent on continued institutional violence.

nocheckmark.lol•1 day ago

Violence is not the first choice of the revolutionary, but it is the only option left in the face of a violent oppressor who wont hesitate to murder you. I’d argue that this was an act of self defense.

nocheckmark.lol•1 day ago

Just to clarify, israeli embassy staffers specifically, not embassy staffers generally. If you represent a country committing genocide, which drains our tax money for weapons such that we lose healthcare, they are guilty. With no (effective) system in place to hold accountable, violence is imposed

nocheckmark.lol•1 day ago

It could be argued that embassy staffers are less culpable than a CEO, but I’d argue they are part of the same violent coercive apparatus and therefore fair game. A general might be more culpable than a soldier, but a soldier knows the risk they take by putting that uniform on. Zionists, beware.

nocheckmark.lol•1 day ago

Sure, if there was a system for putting CEO’s in jail, that would be preferable. But that system only puts poor people in jail. In the end, it all comes down to who is better at organizing violence.

vaqueandconfusing.bsky.social•2 days ago

Gaza and the Ukraine are existing in the same time. The irrational brutality begets violence. Why is the US radically suppressing protests? There is Gaza, the West Bank, Yemen, Lebanon and those countries adjacent to the Ukraine. The same players.

starlightwishes.bsky.social•2 days ago

Exactly. Wrong is Wrong. It doesn't matter who does it.

jaimehylton.bsky.social•2 days ago

🙏

hineni24.bsky.social•2 days ago

I know a lot of good people in Israel, just like there are still a lot of good people in the USA, but I no longer recognize this version of Israel, just like I know longer recognize my own country.

agendaforreform.bsky.social•2 days ago

Netanyahu in his pursuit of #GazaGenocide has dehumanised all Palestinians, now this assassin has done same.

m-asterix.bsky.social•2 days ago

Netanyahu is undermining the cry of Holocaust victims:
NEVER AGAIN!

jerseyshoreglen.bsky.social•2 days ago

The connection between Trump and Israel is an illusion. He is using them to strip Americans of their rights. Meanwhile he tore up the Iran nuclear deal so Russia could trade suicide drones for their war to Iran for nuclear engineers. Remember during the Israel Iran back and forth, Putin told Israel

jerseyshoreglen.bsky.social•2 days ago

not to bomb those nuclear sites. Why is that? New plane from Qatar who fund the terrorism that made this struggle hot again, Trump Tower Damascus with the former head of Al Nusra, and all these other who knows what meetings in the Middle East. This could be the spark for WWIII.

sgtgranny.bsky.social•2 days ago

It IS possible to do both. Thank you.

gudmundursteinar.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is Israel executing unarmed non-combatants? Because that's what it sounds like you are implying.

Israel is NOT committing a genocide in Gaza. There is no intent to destroy the community in whole or in part.

littlewhiteponey.bsky.social•2 days ago

How is bombing hospitals, schools and houses not atrocious? Apart from all other heinous treatment of civilians for past generations?

gudmundursteinar.bsky.social•2 days ago

How is bombing hospitals, schools and houses genocide? How are all other heinous treatment of civilians genocide?

However heinous those actions might be it only becomes genocide if those actions are taken with the intent to destroy in whole or in part a community.

Are they?

littlewhiteponey.bsky.social•2 days ago

However heinous they *might* be? You lost you moral compass a while ago. 😒 “Is Israel executing unarmed non-combatants?...” Is what you set as reference, by the way. As for your question: there is no evidence against that that’s what they are trying to do. 😒

hunteress.bsky.social•1 day ago

Das ist ein massiver Spammer, und habe ihn freudig geblockt.

gudmundursteinar.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah, however heinous. Genocide is a word and it means something specific and defined. Calling things that aren't genocide genocide denudes the word of it's meaning and makes the next real genocide easier.

Plus, the guys redefining language are always the bad guys, always anti truth and often NAZI

littlewhiteponey.bsky.social•1 day ago

You mean like Nazis would point fingers and call other people “Nazi”? I don’t like using that word, it has been used for “anything I don’t like” a lot, like measuring evil in “Hitler”s… Definitely, words are important. Like “genocide” and “Nazi”… but crimes against humanity are more important.

leonamurphy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Taylor Lorenz will get her sex toys out, at age 60, and pleasure herself thinking about the DC murderer.

hirosh7.bsky.social•2 days ago

And since that's actual, horrific genocide happening, why isn't the US fast tracking Palestinian refugees like the White South Afrikaners?

mitchellcolbert.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think you know the white answer to that question.

digitmusic.bsky.social•2 days ago

Rhetorical questions are like that.

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ukulele1.bsky.social•2 days ago

I am with you..the British government is complicit..I am ashamed.

robert-is-typing.bsky.social•2 days ago

Honestly.

I don't understand why it is so hard for some people to hold both of those truths simultaneously.

tcnixx.bsky.social•2 days ago

The double standards spewing out in this Israeli Presser is off the scale. Killing two innocent Embassy staff is terrorism (it is) but bombing hospitals, killing tens of thousands of innocents, starving an entire population is not?
#Gaza

jmeyernj.bsky.social•2 days ago

I do also

fascismisbeta.bsky.social•2 days ago

A handful of evil men causing this much chaos. And we are going to just let it happen.

No wonder the younger generation doesn't vote. We have fucking failed them.

ctopia089.bsky.social•2 days ago

madelinelster.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes.

Netanyahu and the trump crime syndicate are going to develop Gaza for Israel/US profit and the human beings who live there will...?

Anti-Israel is not anti-Semitic.

Also, even if you are, hating people is the way things are done now. Unless you hate the wrong people.

agendaforreform.bsky.social•2 days ago

Israel is a pariah state. Netanyahu has been playing the holocaust card as all Israeli presidents have done, if you criticise Israel you are antisemitic and we all know where that leads. Western government have fallen for this deceit and are now complicit in Israel’s #GazaGenocide

fryincognito.bsky.social•2 days ago

I condemn the DC assassin for killing innocent civilians instead of members of Trump's cabal who will never see the inside of a jail (unless it's for a propaganda photo-op).

conflicttheory.bsky.social•2 days ago

Israel is a leper colony that only exists as part of the U.S. hegemony in the Middle East. Its evil is a feature, not a bug. They even attacked a U.S. ship once to bait the U.S. into their war. They are a pariah nation that should be treated accordingly. not some imagined freedom house.

daveinmichigan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Anyone defending Israel’s actions in Gaza are being wholly disingenuous.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-international-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/19/israels-crime-extermination-acts-genocide-gaza

todayisnice.bsky.social•2 days ago

Kinda like abused kids become abusers themselves.

sethabramson.bsky.social•2 days ago

And when they do, they are held to account for their abuse even as we try to figure out how to stop the cycle of abuse once and for all.

todayisnice.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes

mitchellcolbert.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not all of us become abusers, some of us bailed rather than stick around to be abused and pick up bad habits.

Really glad I had the privilege of a very close friend whose mother let me stay with them, if it weren't for them I'm not sure what I would have done.

todayisnice.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes, many find a way not to become what they hate. Glad you found your own path.

mitchellcolbert.bsky.social•2 days ago

Me too, but I worry for the many abused kids and adults out there who don't have that same luck/privilege that I did.

littlewhiteponey.bsky.social•2 days ago

Are you comparing crimes against humanity with … “abuse during childhood”??

And WHY??

chainmailedheart.bsky.social•2 days ago

I wouldn't say most abused kids do that.
IIRC one in five kids is at least emotionally abused.

I think it's that a few people, maybe about 1 in 20, REALLY feel happy and powerful when hurting others. People like that rack up victims.

foxears.bsky.social•1 day ago

I condemn those responsible for the genocide in Gaza

curioussimon.bsky.social•2 days ago

One needs to highlight - as you did - that it is the goverment, not all Isreal, not all Jews. The backup for the goverment in the state is shrinking.

There is clearly EU action needed as well. 30% of economic exports (largest fraction) is going to EU. Netanyahu, the government speak money.

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