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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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Powerful mini doco

...from Prof Danny Shaw, City College New York, who got fired & arrested for protesting against Israeli & US actions in Gaza

Shaw was accused of antisemitism & fired for his outspoken criticism of Israel’s actions & the use of US weapons & money in Gaza.

“They try to label us as terrorists, but what are our crimes? Student encampments, books, the truth?” says Shaw.

https://aje.io/29g1kk?update=2909427

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Video evidence of NYPD punching, brutalising, & arresting peaceful protesters

"New York police have beaten & arrested several protesters at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Brooklyn."

As the protesters reached an intersection, "officers rushed in & grabbed people out of the crowd seemingly at random.

"Officers tackled multiple protesters to the ground & then proceeded to punch them."

~Katie Smith

3.00 GMT May 19 AJ UPDATES

https://aje.io/29g1kk?update=2909372

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"The Israeli-Palestinian conflict was made in Britain. Britain created the conditions that made the Nakba possible." ~ Avi Shlaim

Panel discussion:

"Britain and the Ongoing Nakba in Palestine"

Panel
Prof Avi Shlaim
Prof Abdel Razzaq Takriti
Dr Chandni Desai

Panel begins at 10.38 min in:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=WrI9sfyFJjk

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"Death protest" by Oxford students at the entrance to graduation ceremonies.

Students have been protesting for 13 days demanding the university sever relations with companies profiting from Israel’s war on Gaza.

The peaceful protest was met with a security guard kicking a number of students & demanding they leave.

10.30 GMT MAY 19 AJ UPDATES

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Analysis & video

"The enabling role of Western countries when it comes to Israel’s war on Gaza is even worse than their stance during the Nakba" in 1948. "We are seeing a transition from using ethnic cleansing as the main method" into genocide.

~Ilan Pappe, the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Pappé was recently detained & interrogated by FBI when entering the US.

Re Israel's ethnic cleansing 1948 & 1967:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jQnKuzPX0Ls&t=8s

https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-anti-zionist-academic-ilan-pappe-interrogated-by-fbi-in-detroit/

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Israel’s Willing Executioners - Read by Eunice Wong

Forced to flee, once again, after more than half of Gaza's population took sanctuary in Rafah.

"And when you run in terror to one part of Gaza we will make you turn around & run to another. Trapped in a labyrinth of death. Back and forth. Up and down. Side to side. Six. Seven. Eight times. We toy with you like mice in a trap. Then we deport you so you can never return. Or we kill you."

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/israels-willing-executioners-read?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=5xoug&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Analysis

"Biden’s floating pier off Gaza is... a Potemkin Village"

The US practices theatrics while refugees starve amid rivers of shit

While the pier "isn’t completely useless, it cannot replace overland truck deliveries.

"At most it will supply 150 trucks daily, when 500 are needed.

"It is a PR band-aid on the gaping wound of.. genocidal blockage of aid."

https://www.juancole.com/2024/05/theatrics-starving-refugees.html

#USPol #Gaza ..

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The grassroots Arab-Jewish Movement, Standing Together, Plans to Guard Gaza Aid Convoys From Right-wing Looters

The Arab-Jewish partnership wants to mobilize Israelis to help quell the recent settler attacks on trucks carrying humanitarian aid into Gaza.

https://www.msn.com/he-il/news/other/arab-jewish-movement-standing-together-plans-to-guard-gaza-aid-convoys-from-right-wing-looters/ar-BB1mCaRX

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Video evidence of NYPD punching, brutalising, & arresting peaceful protesters

"New York police have beaten & arrested several protesters at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Brooklyn."

As the protesters reached an intersection, "officers rushed in & grabbed people out of the crowd seemingly at random.

"Officers tackled multiple protesters to the ground & then proceeded to punch them."

~Katie Smith

3.00 GMT May 19 AJ UPDATES

https://aje.io/29g1kk?update=2909372

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Powerful mini doco

...from Prof Danny Shaw, City College New York, who got fired & arrested for protesting against Israeli & US actions in Gaza

Shaw was accused of antisemitism & fired for his outspoken criticism of Israel’s actions & the use of US weapons & money in Gaza.

“They try to label us as terrorists, but what are our crimes? Student encampments, books, the truth?” says Shaw.

https://aje.io/29g1kk?update=2909427

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Presentation

...by Daniel Levy to the European parliament re western complicity in Israel's genocide

Israel's impunity has been a handmaiden to extremism.

Extremists such as Smotrich wear eradication, displacement & apartheid as badges of pride, & yet the west has normalized it. No one has cut relations with Israel.

"If European support is going to come with the price of continuing to be complicit, then take your attention elsewhere"

April 9, 2024
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4GuNN_ydI7I

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The grassroots Arab-Jewish Movement, Standing Together, Plans to Guard Gaza Aid Convoys From Right-wing Looters

The Arab-Jewish partnership wants to mobilize Israelis to help quell the recent settler attacks on trucks carrying humanitarian aid into Gaza.

https://www.msn.com/he-il/news/other/arab-jewish-movement-standing-together-plans-to-guard-gaza-aid-convoys-from-right-wing-looters/ar-BB1mCaRX

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Analysis

"Biden’s floating pier off Gaza is... a Potemkin Village"

The US practices theatrics while refugees starve amid rivers of shit

While the pier "isn’t completely useless, it cannot replace overland truck deliveries.

"At most it will supply 150 trucks daily, when 500 are needed.

"It is a PR band-aid on the gaping wound of.. genocidal blockage of aid."

https://www.juancole.com/2024/05/theatrics-starving-refugees.html

#USPol #Gaza ..

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@alastair

Could be, Alastair, regarding the details. On the broad aims, the white-supremacist mind is supremely readable.

Perhaps the main difference is the pesky need to look less fascistic than the GOP is, at least during an election campaign.

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Panel discussion

... on this week's International Court of Justice's hearing on Israel's genocide

Can ICJ decisions make any difference - apart from affecting world opinion?

In its latest appeal, South Africa has called on the ICJ for urgent measures to order a halt to Israel’s assault on Rafah.

Panel

Toby Cadman, human rights lawyer

Nour Odeh, political analyst

*Robbie Sabel, Hebrew U

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/5/18/can-the-worlds-top-court-stop-israels-offensive-in-rafah

  • Sabel's argument: "What about Hamas?"

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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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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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Interview

...with Lara Friedman & Rabbi Jay Michaelson on the Antisemitism Awareness Act

"There's something innane about this: in order to engage in criticism of Israel, you have to be an antisemite"
~ Lara Friedman, Foundation for Middle East Peace.

The US Senate is expected to vote soon on the Antisemitism Awareness Act.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/upfront/2024/5/17/will-the-antisemitism-awareness-act-repress-free-speech

#Antisemitism #Censorship #USPol ..

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Presentation

...by Daniel Levy to the European parliament re western complicity in Israel's genocide

Israel's impunity has been a handmaiden to extremism.

Extremists such as Smotrich wear eradication, displacement & apartheid as badges of pride, & yet the west has normalized it. No one has cut relations with Israel.

"If European support is going to come with the price of continuing to be complicit, then take your attention elsewhere"

April 9, 2024
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4GuNN_ydI7I

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Interview

...with Lara Friedman & Rabbi Jay Michaelson on the Antisemitism Awareness Act

"There's something innane about this: in order to engage in criticism of Israel, you have to be an antisemite"
~ Lara Friedman, Foundation for Middle East Peace.

The US Senate is expected to vote soon on the Antisemitism Awareness Act.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/upfront/2024/5/17/will-the-antisemitism-awareness-act-repress-free-speech

#Antisemitism #Censorship #USPol ..

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@JoBlakely

Yes, agree.

Not exactly clear on your meaning with "Where is this energy with white supremacy?" but a few millennia of history sure seem to be keeping it central to the accumulation of wealth & power. Where would the plutocracy be without it?

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@JoBlakely

Ok, got it. But they're not about to be coming down on bigots like themselves....

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@JoBlakely

Yes, because fascists regard people of conscience, rightly so, as their most lethal enemy.

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Interview

... with journalist Orly Noy about the political climate in Israel

"Israeli far right sees victory as ultimate annihilation of the Gaza Strip" and are urging Netanyahu to ignore growing international pressure.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/upfront/2024/5/17/israeli-far-right-see-victory-as-ultimate-annihilation-of-the-gaza

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@GatekeepKen

And maybe, like Trump (and others), it gives him little thrills...

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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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@murmurations

Wot? Behind those fighting their own boys?

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