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"I have no direct relationship to the Holocaust myself. I’m not Jewish, and my family is not from Europe, where almost all victims of the camps were located. My grandfather did fight in WW2 on behalf of the Allies, but he was in the Pacific (he was actually sent to Japan’s prison camps, which was a horrible experience, but he was not executed).

I did however have a friend in high school whose father was part of one of the American units that liberated a concentration camp (most were liberated by Russians).

He came to our class one day to speak in harrowing detail about what he saw there, and he came away with a moral lesson he imparted to all of us.

“No matter what someone has done to you, you cannot starve them,” he said.

I was not there. Nobody I know was there. But the convictions he imparted seem inarguable.

Starvation is one of humanity’s cruelest tools of conflict, and it has been deployed from Syria to Sudan. Israel is not the first government to behave like this and it probably won’t be the last.

But one unique feature of this depravity is that it is being underwritten by the United States taxpayer, who is forced to pay for all of this by a government that could use its leverage to stop it at any time.

And to add an ironic twist to all of it, the people defending this horrid status quo increasingly sound like the very Nazis who necessitated the slogan “Never Again.”

If we really believed those words applied to everyone — famed Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said it would mean “there would be no Cambodia, and no Rwanda and no Darfur and no Bosnia” — then we have to understand that aping the very rhetoric of those who committed the Holocaust is the ultimate disservice to its victims."

theamericansaga.com/p/israeli-

The American Saga · Israeli Denials of Gaza's Starvation Echo Holocaust Denial TacticsBy Zaid Jilani

1. Stop harassing Jewish parents;
2. Bethany Mandel is actually a rightwing kook;
3. I dont have anything smart to say here.

"Mandel told JNS that while the overall response to her “dust-up” with Gordon has been positive, it is the complete opposite of the general reaction to the post that sparked it.

“The response to my initial post, about my fear for the safety of my kids at their camp, was overwhelmingly negative,” she said, adding that she took down the post about her children because of it. There were “thousands of comments like Gordon’s, decrying #Zionism and mocking the idea that #Jews in #America can possibly feel unsafe.”

It “shows just how divided our society is on #Israel and the safety of Jews,” Mandel told JNS. "

jns.org/fidelity-employee-fire

“‘Exceptional Incident’ – Al-Qassam Brigades Detail Complex Attack on Israeli Forces in Gaza”

by Palestine Chronicle Staff

@palestine
@israel
@UKLabour

“The Al-Qassam Brigades announced a multi-phased operation against a newly established Israeli military position in southern Gaza, while Israeli media acknowledged a ‘significant’ attack and troop casualties”

palestinechronicle.com/excepti

"At the cusp of a possible Skydance sale, The Free Press faces a challenge: It is difficult to position yourself as the voice of the sensible unheard when the “anti-wokeness” your publication feeds on is unequivocally in power. As officers from unknown agencies and the National Guard set up checkpoints in DC and ICE abducts children from their schools, The Free Press asks us to preserve our free speech by stepping back, chilling out, and learning how to party. As children go hungry in Gaza, The Free Press asks us to consider whether those children in Gaza “might have been sick or worse even if there was no war.” To paraphrase Adorno: The Free Press offers itself as a device for orientation in a cold, alienated, largely incomprehensible world. It is a device for casting oneself as reasonable: Gays (like Bari Weiss) are fine, sure, but maybe those claims of malicious Midwestern doctors force-transing children are worth interrogating. Democrats are fine, sure, but that Zohran Mamdani made a rap song once."

thenation.com/article/society/

"The demand for the replacement of the EU coordinator on combating antisemitism after her pro-Israel claims in an official diplomatic meeting is now coming from Jewish and Israeli organisations as well.

Last week, 29 Jewish and Israeli organisations from across Europe sent an open letter to EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, calling for the immediate replacement of Katharina von Schnurbein.

In the joint open letter these Jewish and Israeli organisations from different EU member states stated that they do not support the "extreme-right government of Israel" and are "committed to human rights and democratic principles, anti-racism and respect for international law".

These organisations also wrote that they reject the idea that the fight against antisemitism means "shielding Israel from any form of pressure or criticism" and an "automatic and total advancement of the positions of the current Israeli government.""

euobserver.com/*/ar980add78

EUobserver · European Jews join call for EU 'antisemitism tsar' to goSome 29 Jewish and Israeli organisations from across Europe have written to EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, calling for the immediate replacement of Katharina von Schnurbein, rejecting the idea that the fight against antisemitism means "shielding Israel from any form of pressure or criticism".

I think I'll not go down the rabbit hole of consent vs. fair use vs. . . . esp. as I hold what is probably an unpopular opinion about that. (Not as unpopular as my #Zionism, but still. . . 😆)

In any event, I do think consent is perhaps less of an issue when we're talking about code than it is for music or art or what have you.

Hamas Continues Its Battle Against #UK Terror Designation

On Tuesday, Hamas formally accused the #British Home Secretary of improperly subordinating her authority to “Zionism and the Apartheid State of Israel.”

from #DropSiteNews
Jeremy Scahill
Aug 19, 2025

In a six-page legal filing, lawyers for Hamas argued that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper “acted with an improper motive,” when she rejected #Hamas’s April 9, 2025, appeal of the terror designation, saying she failed to give it proper review or engage its legal arguments because of “her support for, and belief in, #Zionism and the #Apartheid State of #Israel, and/or her related and racist hostility towards non-Jewish #Palestinians.” The lawyers charged that Cooper had “fettered her discretion by subordinating her decision to a prior, longstanding, and inflexible government policy of support for Zionism—a racist and fascist ideology.”

#Gaza #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#UKPolitics
#news #press #politics @palestine

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@obadafamily @palestine @israel

Yes! “Israel” fundamentally is a terrorist state!

…. and lest we forget:

#Violence targeting #Jews was, and [..] remains, a core tactic of #Zionism.[..] But the most deadly single terror attack was the #Jewish #Agency’s bombing of the immigrant ship #Patria in 1940, killing an estimated 267 people, of whom more than 200 were Jews fleeing the #Nazis. The Jewish Agency bombed the Patria because it was bringing the DPs to Mauritius”

mondoweiss.net/2017/01/terrori

Mondoweiss · Terrorism: How the Israeli state was wonTerror was vital to the establishment of Israel. David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann planned for large numbers of Arabs to be expelled to assure a Jewish majority. When non-Zionist British Jew Robert…

#UKpolitics #IHRAdefinition #ZarahSultana
#Zionism #Racism
@palestine

"Zarah has proudly declared she is anti-Zionist and explained that the Labour Party capitulated to the IHRA guidelines"
"We've seen example after example of IHRA guidelines being used to silence legitimate criticism of Israel"
"The guidelines don't allow Palestinians to say Israel is a racist endeavour, even as it genocides them and openly admits to its plans for ethnic cleansing"

councilestatemedia.uk/p/zarah-

Council Estate Media · Zarah Sultana proudly declares she is anti-Zionist and says Labour capitulated over IHRA guidelinesBy Ricky Hale