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DrALJONES

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Writer, psychologist & educator here to learn & share info on politics, psych, education, history &, especially, structural power. Antifascist, anti-oligarchy, atheist. I boost what I find interesting, regardless of whether I agree with it. Resisting fascism includes countering disinformation with facts. I prefer evidence, not evidence-free opinion. Image: Rothko

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"Play down Palestinian deaths"

Germany based Upday, the largest news aggregator app in Europe, told journalists to limit online news about civilian casualties in Palestine

Upday leadership gave instructions to journalists to prioritize the Israeli perspective & minimize Palestinian civilian deaths in coverage, according to interviews with employees & internal documents

Widespread bias among Western media giants has intensified after Hamas’s attack.

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/19/upday-news-gaza-israel-axel-springer/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

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"Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful"

Of 553 US campus protests, 97% remained non-violent.

Of the 3%, half were from clashes with police sent in to clear peaceful protests.

"If someone is speaking more about 'violent encampments' than they are about violent genocide of the Palestinians, they have a problem reflective of deep and dangerous biases."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-peaceful-protests?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=143332069c-Top+News%3A+Fri.+5%2F10%2F24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-3b949b3e19-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

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Sanders slams Netanyahu over his calling US student protesters "antisemitic mobs” & accusing them of physically attacking Jewish students & faculty.

"No, Mr Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that..your extremist govt has killed 34,000 Palestinians & wounded more than 77,000 – 70% of whom are women and children"

Do not try "to distract us from the immoral & illegal war policies of your extremist & racist government"

https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-netanyahu-antisemitism?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=939a6b0c86-Top+News%3A+Thu.+4%2F25%2F24+w%2F+fundraiser&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-b6968bca63-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

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Hundreds of Israel supporters attacked anti-war protesters at UCLA

They were filmed carrying out assaults & using fireworks & pepper spray on demonstrators at the Gaza war protest encampment."

Aerial footage showed security forces watching on.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/5/1/israel-supporters-attack-anti-war-protesters-at-ucla-university-in-us#:~:text=A%20group%20of%20Israel%20supporters,the%20Gaza%20war%20protest%20encampment.

Also, a link to after-interviews: https://toot.wales/@fkamiah17/112365742402079375

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"Israel's Use of Palestinian Children as Human Shields"

Three boys say the IDF used them to shield soldiers from potential harm during an IDF raid on a refugee camp.

"They forced Karam to walk in front of them, open the doors to each room, & enter it before them. While they were walking, one soldier placed his rifle on Karam's right shoulder & fired two shots toward an apartment".

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-human-shields?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=e08af1a596-Top+News%3A+Tues.+5%2F14%2F24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-3b949b3e19-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

#HumanShields #Gaza #IDF ..

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"Get Off Our Campus!”: Mike Johnson Met With Boos and Anger During Columbia Visit

"The speaker called students for a Gaza ceasefire “lawless agitators and radicals.” They booed him from the moment he appeared.

"Republican politicians like Johnson are getting it completely wrong because they want to get it wrong, and they want to label us as antisemitic when it couldn’t be further from the truth.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/mike-johnson-speaker-columbia-student-gaza-palestine-protests/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-04-25-2024

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Netanyahu supported Hamas in order to split the Palestinian leadership & prevent a Palestinian state.

"Before Oct 7, Netanyahu..encouraged Qatar to fund Hamas, seeing Hamas's existence as a way to split Palestinian leadership & avoid pressure on Israel to enter negotiations about a Palestinian state. Utter cynicism." (@ KenRoth)

"Netanyahu..avoided talking publicly about the funds.. secured from Qatar for Gaza over the past decade."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/documents-show-israel-sought-valued-qatari-aid-for-gaza-in-years-leading-to-oct-7/

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Interview with Naomi Klein:

"Jews Must Raise Their Voices for Palestine, Oppose the False Idol of Zionism"

Thousands of Jewish Americans & allies gathered in Brooklyn just a block from the home of Chuck Schumer on Tuesday. Naomi Klein spoke:

"Zionism is a false idol that takes our most profound biblical stories of justice & emancipation from slavery... & turns them into weapons of colonial land theft, roadmaps for ethnic cleansing & genocide."

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/24/naomi_klein_seder

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THE ISRAELI SOLDIERS EXPOSING ISRAELI DEFENCE FORCE WAR CRIMES

"Still, the fact that I love my country doesn’t mean I cannot criticize it & doesn’t mean even the opposite.... If you love Israel, you should criticize the occupation. If you want Israel to try to be a democracy, you should demand the end of the occupation by the name of democratic values. That’s what I’m doing"
Nir Avishai Cohen, author of Love Israel, Support Palestine: An Israeli Story

https://therealnews.com/the-israeli-soldiers-exposing-the-idfs-war-crimes?utm_medium=email

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Welcome to worldwide America-Europe-Israeli neo-Fascism & genocide, so also neo-Nazism

For decades, racist groups such as the Heritage Foundation in the U.S. have been working to undo the democratic gains of the 20thC.

They know that dictatorship, alone, will save their privilege.

eg, Nancy MacLean Democracy in chains (talk begins ~10 mins in): https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/scholar-to-scholar-talk-nancy-maclean-pre-history-likely-sequels-of-insurrection-us-capitol/

& Anne Nelson, Shadow network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJFg5nTxgMk

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Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied territories, sent a plea to Israeli citizens:

"We cannot stop this without you. I fully acknowledge your enduring pain, including for the hostages still in Gaza. Please do not overlook the devastation inflicted on Gaza, especially its children, half of the population trapped in this horror. This makes no one safer.”

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Interview with Jewish prof Annelise Orleck

Police body-slammed Orleck to the ground as she tried to protect her students.

Orleck was charged with criminal trespass & temporarily banned from parts of Dartmouth College campus.

50+ chapters of the American Association of University Professors have condemned the violent arrests by police at student protests.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/7/annelise_orleck_dartmouth_pro_palestine_protests

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"Trans Kids Want to Go to Prom, So They Threw It for Themselves

Daniel Trujillo & his parents regularly drove to Phoenix to testify in person against anti-transgender bills.

Recently, Daniel has been working on a secret project: a prom for trans & non-binary kids in Washington, D.C.

150 trans children & adults from 16 states gathered in front of the Capitol building to attend the prom celebrating trans kids

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bvzm/trans-prom-washington-dc?utm_source=email&utm_medium=editorial&utm_content=news&utm_campaign=230523

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"Florida is officially a laboratory for fascism in the U.S"

DeSantis's thought-crime laws are to intimidate & terrorize all teachers, educators, librarians & others committed to education, critical thinking & the truth in Florida (& beyond)

Censors will review books for thought crimes & other "dangerous" ideas contrary to conservative interests

DeSantis' goal is to make America into a new Jim Crow Christofascist plutocracy

Trump was just an intermediate step

https://www.salon.com/2023/02/07/florida-is-officially-a-laboratory-for-fascism-in-the-us/

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Just a bunch of plutocrats utilising their free-speech rights..

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Pro-Israel billionaires pushed NYC Mayor to use police on pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University.

They donated to him & offered to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations.

The group included Howard Schultz, Michael Dell, Bill Ackman & Joshua Kushner, with Daniel Lubetzky, Daniel Loeb, Len Blavatnik & Joseph Sitt also associated.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/16/pro-israel-billionaires-urged-new-york-crackdown-on-gaza-protests-report

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Analysis

"Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful"

Of 553 US campus protests, 97% remained non-violent.

Of the 3%, half were from clashes with police sent in to clear peaceful protests.

"If someone is speaking more about 'violent encampments' than they are about violent genocide of the Palestinians, they have a problem reflective of deep and dangerous biases."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-peaceful-protests?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=143332069c-Top+News%3A+Fri.+5%2F10%2F24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-3b949b3e19-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

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On apartheid Israel

When apartheid South Africa came under growing international pressure at the UN, the General Assembly initiated boycotts.

It suspended South Africa, stripping it of its Member State rights & privileges.

The apartheid regime "could no longer be seated, speak or vote at the General Assembly & other UN organs.

"Apartheid South Africa changed course because it became a pariah & isolated regime"

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/20/ostracising-israel-at-the-un-should-be-a-priority

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The old Right has left the building: How MAGA is consciously manipulated by fear & loathing of liberals

Trump plans to become America’s first de facto dictator if he wins in 2024

Agenda 47 & Project 2025 - created by right-wing think tanks & interest groups - aim to end the First Amendment, make White Christianity the official religion, use the military to occupy cities, invoke the Alien Enemies Act, & take away civil & human rights of target groups

https://www.salon.com/2023/10/10/project-2025-shows-us-that-the-old-right-has-left-the-building-gops-surrender-to-complete/

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Report from the University of Southern California

"17 History Department Faculty Demand Resignation of President, Others, for use of Violence against Campus Community"

"We, the undersigned members of the Department of History unequivocally condemn the university administration for its decision to invite riot police to campus and employ violence against our students and colleagues."

https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/department-resignation-president.html

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BEFORE DESANTIS ANNOUNCED HIS RUN,

HE SIGNED A LAW LETTING HIM CONTINUE AS GOV WHILE RUNNING

The new law also (surprise) makes it harder to vote in Florida, via:

  • new restrictions on mail-in ballots

  • efforts to make it easier to purge voting rolls

  • limitations on third-party voter registration groups that could gut community registration drives

DeSantis now faces 3 new fed lawsuits arguing violations of right to vote, free speech & association

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/05/ron-desantis-faces-three-new-lawsuits-after-signing-new-voter-suppression-bill/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-05-30-2023

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In a standard fascist tactic, police enabled pro-israel attack on Gaza Solidarity camp

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UCLA students at a peaceful encampment were pepper sprayed & beaten, while police stood by & watched.

Students blasted university officials & police for failing to intervene & protect them from pro-Israeli attackers.

"Several students said they had to rely on each other, not the police, for protection as they were attacked."

00.35 GMT May 2 AJ updates ...2

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Oxford & Cambridge students launch Gaza encampment.

Cambridge for Palestine called for the university to disclose & divest “from its financial & professional support” of the war in Gaza.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/oxford-cambridge-students-launch-gaza-112213815.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAussOfTB277FQlO6fBbErYLh03SRsHebDABX4QH-MBNw-SrUi3_b-smDz3R_G7t6PMMi35vfGCSrwqG_nAt4pjdSmm4Kh3EX05UhPHcTdUhTBUh4-SdN6hjarfaF0EGpHKBJFQbr2KHELbu3PkfCyUTaXj1kEvJq1nmjsEQ5zeJ

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University of Texas professor witnesses police attack on peaceful student protest

The students were loud, but they were peaceful, & the police just started attacking them.

An army of police carrying guns, rifles, stormed into the student crowd & started arresting students.

“It became more violent because the police had attacked the students, not the other way around”.

Prof Jeremi Suri

00.30 GMT Apr 25 AJ updates

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Israel's accusations fall apart, but Biden continues his vendetta against UNRWA

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Israel provided no evidence to support its claims against UNRWA.

A major independent report says UNRWA is more rigorous than other U.N. agencies in internal oversight of staff.

Israel's allegations against UNRWA came hours after the ICJ found Israel was "plausibly" committing genocide in Gaza.

Biden dismissed the ICJ's finding & continues to refuse to fund UNRWA.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/unrwa-2667835600?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=f7d4e9f735-Top+News%3A+Mon.+4%2F22%2F24+w%2F+fundraiser&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-b6968bca63-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

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Interview with Jewish historian, Nara Milanich, on far-right attempts to shut down free speech on campus via false accusations of anti-semitism.

It's natural for students to feel discomfort when they encounter ideas radically different from the ideas they grew up with, says Milanich

But we have to distinguish between discomfort & actual harm

While we should offer emotional support, we can't decide Free Speech policy based on that discomfort alone.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=il_fLVVsKuo

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