The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), a London-based legal group, has submitted a complaint to Scotland Yard’s War Crimes Team accusing Israel of using “‘starvation as a weapon of war” and “willfully causing great suffering to Palestinians during its war on Gaza”. It named four British government ministers for “alleged complicity and criminal responsibility in Israeli war crimes”.
@FrankFrank@Lassielmr@palestine saying "others are allowed to do genocide why are they picking on us" isnt a defence. Its suggesting you understand israel is doing genocide and then defending it with whataboutery.
While i think its important to engage with people we/I dont agree with, im not willing to engage with people who are aware that a gecocide is taking pace but stil defend it. You are blocked.
UC Workers Are Poised to Strike for Palestine and for Free Speech
In the University of California system, the union representing 48,000 grad students and other academic workers is about to strike in protest of repression of campus protests. It’s a watershed for labor and for the Palestine solidarity movement.
@palestine the other protest was against China's banning of Falun Gong, a bizarre ban given that Falun Gong is mostly a set of exercises like tai chi and not exactly a major threat...
50 Spanish universities to break ties with Israeli institutions
The Confederation of Spanish Universities (CRUE) announced on Thursday that it will cut ties with Israeli universities and research centers “that have not expressed a firm commitment to peace and compliance with international humanitarian law.”
Never forgive the Guardian for their deliberate misrepresentation of antisemitism, not only helping enable the current genocide but also destroying the reputation of one of the few leaders that might have actually worked towards as solution @palestine
In an era of post-truth, the strategy of rigidly defending your version of truth and attacking other people's view of the truth is a largely self-destructive excercise that just creates a never ending argument
Understanding the logics and rationales of those people we disagree with is a far better way but requires humility and nuance
Naomi Klein in Doppelganger and Büscher in The Truth About Nature show us how this can be done with #Covid, #Palestine and #ClimateChange
As much as it might seem like this is an answer, it largely isn't. When people place their 'tribes' views of truth over actual truth, no amount of reason can penetrate.
Other solutions are required. One such is to break the problem into the smallest undeniable truths possible, and to keep repeating them over and over again to as many nany ears as possible, Eventually they break down the barriers. It takes about a decade.
Emotions are key to all persuasion. Good advertisers have known this since … oh, at least since the days of Bill Bernbach. But i guess this is the one area where even Aristotle got it right.