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Translator from Russian of Svetlana Alexievich, Pavel Bazhov, Oleg Pavlov and others
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Through these Machiavellian manoeuvres, Israel is granted total impunity to persecute the Palestinians unimpeded.
This tactic has been working smoothly for decades, intimidating would-be critics of Israel. Has Israelâs full-scale genocide finally broken the spell?
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On the other hand, we are told anyone holding Israel to account is an antisemite, because they donât spend the same energy on holding North Korea to account.
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Am not making any sweeping statements, Nick. Simply offering my observation. Iâve had it happen to me countless times and wish people would refrain from making baseless assumptions. Thatâs all.
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> The op-ed in the newspaper Liberation is signed by 300 distinguished authors and comes as a new poll shows French people overwhelmingly approve sanctions against Israel
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Itâs bizarre how people leap to all kinds of weird assumptions on social media. Rather than remembering how much we donât actually know.
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It has been fascinating to see how the different outlets have framed it and how the framing has shifted. From âIsraelâHamas warâ to âIsraelâGaza warâ to âWar on Gazaâ (used by AJ).
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The final section of this interview is so powerful. Dr Haj-Hassan refusing to let the BBC âtwo-sideâ the genocide in Gaza.
"You don't ask the perpetrator of genocide their opinion on whether they are committing a genocide".
The eloquence in her rage is extraordinary.
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Well, itâs always a sign that the hurler of the abuse has run out of vaguely valid arguments.
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I myself have had the âantisemiteâ slur hurled at me countless times â despite the fact my motherâs a Holocaust survivor. Have even been called âGoy girlâ! Itâs obscene and has to stop.
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His entire argument seems to be that thereâs something inherently suspicious about focusing on Israelâs apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocides, and only an antisemite would be motivated to scrutinise Israel.
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Yes, itâs totally illogical.
If someone opposed the Gaza genocide but supported atrocities in Sudan, then they could legitimately be called out for hypocrisy. But opposing one genocide doesnât imply the person supports other genocides in other places.
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There are more and more Israelis horrified at whatâs happening in the OPT, but sadly they remain a sliver of the general population.
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4/ by the colonized and (this part implied) the descendants of the colonizer, that what happened was wrong.
â Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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3/ I tell stories for a living, and there's a thick thread of narrative by well-meaning white Westerners that exalts the native populations in so many parts of the world for standing up to the occupiers, makes of their narrative a neat reflexive arc in which it was always understood,
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2/ any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilization. But decades, centuries later, when enough of the land has been stolen and enough of the natives killed, it is safe enough to venerate resistance in hindsight.
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Russian hasbara has been identical to the Israeli variety for many years now.
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The Palestine National Council had an ethnically Jewish-Israeli member: Uri Davis.
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Israelâs rationale has been to kill as many Palestinians as possible in the interests of making Israel safer. It was blindingly obvious right from the start that this genocidal frenzy would make Israel *less* safe.
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Congratulations, Sarah! Every book is the fruit of a team effort, of course.
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> UK firms have exported thousands of military items including munitions to Israel despite the government suspending key arms export licences to the country in September, new analysis of trade data shows.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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The UK has been supplying components for Israelâs F-35 fighter jets.
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Itâs a rarely acknowledged fact that 20% of the children in Gaza were suffering stunted growth due to the Israeli blockade on basic food stuffs prior to 7 Oct.
If a people are cornered, hungry and suicidal, they will often resort to desperate measures.
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I was responding to your framing this as a war initiated by Hamas, which to my mind is an oversimplification. Thatâs all.
I appreciate the fact you donât support what Israel is currently doing.
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And perhaps it is time to rescind the immoral practice of apartheid in the Israeli legal system, which Uri Davis brilliantly details in his book APARTHEID ISRAEL: Possibilities for the Struggle Within (quoted above)?
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Perhaps to the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 native inhabitants of Palestine in 1948?
Perhaps it is time to acknowledge that crime and grant Palestinians the right of return which they maintain under international humanitarian law?
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It looks like Lammy is offering optics, rather than action.
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In their first interview following Oct 7, Hamas said their attack on Israel was in response to the horrific crimes being carried out in the West Bank.
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Yes, this âŹď¸. Bizarre that Lammy is being lauded for such a meaningless gesture.
Suspending trade with Israel would be significant. Suspending armament sales would be. Suspending the discussions about a future trade deal, not really.
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These times are a moral test. Our actions or our silence will determine whether we pass or fail.
Will apathy prevail? Or will you break your silence? Itâs easy to do once youâve formed an intention to show integrity.
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So many Ukrainians and Russian/international supporters of Ukraine were so vocal in criticising Russians for not standing up to the Kremlin. Yet they donât have the guts to speak out about the direct slaughter of more than 60k people and the indirectly caused deaths of hundreds of thousands more.
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Is this the Palestine exception in action again? The idea that Palestinians arenât quite human, and so we can safely ignore their mass murder?
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But it allows Israel to participate, in what critics call an act of âartwashingâ of their genocide in Gaza.
Why?
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